Radio Free HPC Podcasthttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/ennoreply@blogger.com (Rich)Wed, 22 May 2019 07:43:15 PDTBlogger http://www.blogger.com220125Creative Commmons care of insideHPC, LLC.hpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,dataTechnology/Gadgetsrich@insidehpc.comRich BruecknerRich Bruecknernohpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,dataNews and commentary on high performance computingA podcast for fans of high performance computing.In-Memory, Caching, Persistencehttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/ojrHKh81VNo/in-memory-caching-persistence.htmlIn Memory ComputingPersistencerich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Wed, 22 May 2019 07:43:15 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-6214116876596728990<h2>Asian Student Cluster Competition</h2>The ever-popular "calendar segment" is back (yes, that is us being sarcastic) as Dan describes his upcoming trip to Dalian, China for the Asian Student Cluster competition. 20 teams are expected to compete, mostly from mainland China, but also from Europe, South America and other parts of Asia. All of them have gone through a rigorous qualifying process. Chinese vendor Inspur provides all the equipment (except for accelerators, which remain the responsibility of the teams) based on the configuration that the teams request. As always, the team, and the rest of humanity, is highly supportive of the student cluster tournaments that take place at SC, ISC, and this Asian one, in addition to many regional supporting events. Dan also lets us know how to go about picking the right seat in the airplane. There's an app for that! <br /><h2>New Optane</h2>Intel’s new Optane is M.2 format with 16GB or 32GB of Opatne and 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB of Flash backing it. This made Henry think of history of caching and how people used to go through laborious data placement on outer cylinders of hard disks. Then you had DIMMs with Flash behind it. The discussion goes to the algorithms and policies that manage data movement, which is another form of optimizing workload management, and the different combinations of fast/small/expensive capacity backed up with slower/larger/cheaper capacity. And how persistence impacts this equation and to what extent applications may want to optimize around these. Then there is in-memory processing, ram-disk, and how in the future, the ever-increasing size of memory can make those standard practice. <br /><h2>Catch of the Week</h2><img alt="" height="201" src="https://radiofreehpc.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/RFHPC-catch2-300x201.png" width="300" /><img alt="" height="260" src="https://radiofreehpc.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/RFHPC-catch1.png" width="175" /> <br /><h2>Henry:</h2>Henry is catchless but we can expect a healthy debate. Shahin produces two to make up for it. <br /><h2>Shahin:</h2>Shahin has new reinforcement that IoT and HPC will converge in interesting ways. 1) We all know that IoT is the fountain of data and will generates so much data that you need HPC (and AI) to make sense of them, but 2) what is also very interesting Digital twins will need to simulate and predict the behavior of the real thing. <br /><h2><a href="https://staceyoniot.com/what-we-mean-when-we-talk-about-digital-twins/">What we mean when we talk about digital twins</a></h2><blockquote>"Watching it prompted me to wonder how much data it takes to create a digital twin. If I had a digital simulacrum of a machine and could apply different environmental or mechanical factors to it, how large could that original simulacrum be? It turns out that’s not how digital twins work. They aren’t virtual doppelgangers. They are actually a series of algorithms that connote how machine moves or behaves. In other words, a twin isn’t a twin so much as it’s…math."</blockquote><h2><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-10/is-anyone-listening-to-you-on-alexa-a-global-team-reviews-audio">Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You&nbsp;Tell Alexa</a></h2><blockquote>"A global team reviews audio clips in an effort to help the voice-activated assistant&nbsp;respond to commands. The team comprises a mix of contractors and full-time Amazon employees who work in outposts from Boston to&nbsp;Costa Rica, India and Romania, according to the people, who signed nondisclosure agreements barring them from&nbsp;speaking publicly about the program. They work nine hours a day, with each reviewer parsing as many as 1,000&nbsp;audio clips per shift, according to two workers based at Amazon’s Bucharest office, which takes up the top three&nbsp;floors of the Globalworth building in the Romanian capital’s up-and-coming Pipera district. The modern facility&nbsp;stands out amid the crumbling infrastructure and bears no exterior sign advertising Amazon’s presence."</blockquote>Shahin thinks it’s as simple as supervised learning needing supervisors, so the question is the legal framework and jurisdiction issues, and social policy, and not technology. <br /><h2>Dan:</h2>It is time to panic more as Dan shares the story of the Chinese scientist who’s presumably blended monkey and human genes. It’s Planet of the Apes all over again. <br /><h2><a href="https://futurism.com/the-byte/chinese-scientists-super-monkeys-human-brain-genes">Chines Scientists Gene-Hacked Super Smart Human-Monkey Hybrids</a></h2><blockquote>"For the first time, scientists have&nbsp;used gene-editing techniques to make monkey brains more humanlike.&nbsp;The monkeys, rhesus macaques, got smarter — they had superior memories to unaltered monkeys, according to&nbsp;recently-published research&nbsp;that’s kicked off a fiery debate among ethicists about&nbsp;how far scientists should be able to take genetic experimentation."</blockquote>Listen in to hear the full conversation.<br /><em><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode228/RFHPC228_InMemory-Caching.mp3">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></em> <a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><em>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</em></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/ojrHKh81VNo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noAsian Student Cluster CompetitionThe ever-popular "calendar segment" is back (yes, that is us being sarcastic) as Dan describes his upcoming trip to Dalian, China for the Asian Student Cluster competition. 20 teams are expected to compete, mostly from maiRich BruecknerAsian Student Cluster CompetitionThe ever-popular "calendar segment" is back (yes, that is us being sarcastic) as Dan describes his upcoming trip to Dalian, China for the Asian Student Cluster competition. 20 teams are expected to compete, mostly from mainland China, but also from Europe, South America and other parts of Asia. All of them have gone through a rigorous qualifying process. Chinese vendor Inspur provides all the equipment (except for accelerators, which remain the responsibility of the teams) based on the configuration that the teams request. As always, the team, and the rest of humanity, is highly supportive of the student cluster tournaments that take place at SC, ISC, and this Asian one, in addition to many regional supporting events. Dan also lets us know how to go about picking the right seat in the airplane. There's an app for that! New OptaneIntel’s new Optane is M.2 format with 16GB or 32GB of Opatne and 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB of Flash backing it. This made Henry think of history of caching and how people used to go through laborious data placement on outer cylinders of hard disks. Then you had DIMMs with Flash behind it. The discussion goes to the algorithms and policies that manage data movement, which is another form of optimizing workload management, and the different combinations of fast/small/expensive capacity backed up with slower/larger/cheaper capacity. And how persistence impacts this equation and to what extent applications may want to optimize around these. Then there is in-memory processing, ram-disk, and how in the future, the ever-increasing size of memory can make those standard practice. Catch of the Week Henry:Henry is catchless but we can expect a healthy debate. Shahin produces two to make up for it. Shahin:Shahin has new reinforcement that IoT and HPC will converge in interesting ways. 1) We all know that IoT is the fountain of data and will generates so much data that you need HPC (and AI) to make sense of them, but 2) what is also very interesting Digital twins will need to simulate and predict the behavior of the real thing. What we mean when we talk about digital twins"Watching it prompted me to wonder how much data it takes to create a digital twin. If I had a digital simulacrum of a machine and could apply different environmental or mechanical factors to it, how large could that original simulacrum be? It turns out that’s not how digital twins work. They aren’t virtual doppelgangers. They are actually a series of algorithms that connote how machine moves or behaves. In other words, a twin isn’t a twin so much as it’s…math."Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You&nbsp;Tell Alexa"A global team reviews audio clips in an effort to help the voice-activated assistant&nbsp;respond to commands. The team comprises a mix of contractors and full-time Amazon employees who work in outposts from Boston to&nbsp;Costa Rica, India and Romania, according to the people, who signed nondisclosure agreements barring them from&nbsp;speaking publicly about the program. They work nine hours a day, with each reviewer parsing as many as 1,000&nbsp;audio clips per shift, according to two workers based at Amazon’s Bucharest office, which takes up the top three&nbsp;floors of the Globalworth building in the Romanian capital’s up-and-coming Pipera district. The modern facility&nbsp;stands out amid the crumbling infrastructure and bears no exterior sign advertising Amazon’s presence."Shahin thinks it’s as simple as supervised learning needing supervisors, so the question is the legal framework and jurisdiction issues, and social policy, and not technology. Dan:It is time to panic more as Dan shares the story of the Chinese scientist who’s presumably blended monkey and human genes. It’s Planet of the Apes all over again. Chines Scientists Gene-Hacked Super Smart Human-Monkey Hybrids"For the first time, scientists have&nbsp;used gene-editing techniques to make monkey brains more humanlike.&nbsp;The monkeys, rhesuhpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2019/05/in-memory-caching-persistence.htmlBlack Hole Seen, with Data to Matchhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/chV04lVAeW8/black-hole-seen-with-data-to-match.htmlBlack HoleData VisualizationHPCMoving Datarich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Thu, 25 Apr 2019 02:31:28 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-7807845971026013021Here's this week's synopsis.<br /><br /><h3>Black Holes Visualized</h3><div>The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/science/black-hole-picture.html">news of the cool visualization of an actual black hole</a> leads to interesting issues in HPC land. Shahin is at pains to give credit where it is due while considering it as an achievement in data visualization not unlike many others before it. Yes, it's about a fascinating topic, but that's also not unlike many others in the past.</div><div></div><div>But the team moves on to the real point: the size of the radio data that had to be collected and managed and processed to visualize it. 1.75 PB of raw data from each telescope meant a lot of physical drives that had to be flown to the data center. Henry leads a discussion about the race between bandwidth and data size, various companies’ plans to launch thousands of satellites to help get away from sneakernet, and the imminent arrival of 5G. We've discussed large scale data movement in previous episodes and think it's an important issue for HPC, AI, and Cloud.</div><h3>Catch of the Week</h3><img alt="" height="201" src="https://radiofreehpc.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/RFHPC-catch2-300x201.png" width="300" /><img alt="" height="260" src="https://radiofreehpc.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/RFHPC-catch1.png" width="175" /><br /><br />Henry:<br />That sneakernet discussion above is it for Henry this week.<br /><br />Shahin:<br /><blockquote><h3><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73NjqAdsU5U">Mapping Space Debris (video)</a></h3><div class="style-scope ytd-video-secondary-info-renderer" id="description">LeoLabs is a company that maps objects in the low Earth orbit (LEO). The visdeo shows actual trajectories of 12,401 low Earth objects in space being tracked on August 24, 2017 by LeoLabs' phased array radars. Video loop shows approx 2 hours of data.</div></blockquote>Dan:<br /><blockquote><h3><a href="https://www.brecorder.com/2019/04/11/488194/scientists-put-human-gene-into-monkeys-to-make-them-smarter-human-like/">Scientists put human gene into monkeys to make them smarter, human-like</a></h3>Making monkeys more smart and human-like, scientists have used gene-editing to insert human brain gene in a monkey.<br />For the first time, a team of Chinese scientists made use of gene-editing techniques to make monkey brains more human-like. By the end, the monkeys, rhesus macaques, got smarter and had superior memories as compared to the unaltered monkeys.</blockquote>The team doubts this is a true story and that leads Shahin to his first rant on the show when he complains about previously reputable publications succumbing to clickbait.<br /><blockquote><h3><a href="https://www.iflscience.com/technology/were-more-likely-than-not-living-in-a-computer-simulation-mit-professor-suggests/">We're More Likely Than Not Living In A Computer Simulation, MIT Professor Suggests</a></h3>An MIT professor has said he believes it's "more likely than not" that we are living in some kind of simulated universe, given that we ourselves are not far away from being capable of creating hyper-realistic simulations ourselves.</blockquote>Yet another story that raises eyebrows. This one leads the RFHPC team to create a new award on the spot!<br /><br />Listen in to hear the full conversation.<br /><br /><em><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode227/RFHPC227_BlackHole.mp3">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></em><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><em>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</em></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/chV04lVAeW8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noHere's this week's synopsis. Black Holes VisualizedThe news of the cool visualization of an actual black hole leads to interesting issues in HPC land. Shahin is at pains to give credit where it is due while considering it as an achievement in data visualiRich BruecknerHere's this week's synopsis. Black Holes VisualizedThe news of the cool visualization of an actual black hole leads to interesting issues in HPC land. Shahin is at pains to give credit where it is due while considering it as an achievement in data visualization not unlike many others before it. Yes, it's about a fascinating topic, but that's also not unlike many others in the past.But the team moves on to the real point: the size of the radio data that had to be collected and managed and processed to visualize it. 1.75 PB of raw data from each telescope meant a lot of physical drives that had to be flown to the data center. Henry leads a discussion about the race between bandwidth and data size, various companies’ plans to launch thousands of satellites to help get away from sneakernet, and the imminent arrival of 5G. We've discussed large scale data movement in previous episodes and think it's an important issue for HPC, AI, and Cloud.Catch of the Week Henry: That sneakernet discussion above is it for Henry this week. Shahin: Mapping Space Debris (video)LeoLabs is a company that maps objects in the low Earth orbit (LEO). The visdeo shows actual trajectories of 12,401 low Earth objects in space being tracked on August 24, 2017 by LeoLabs' phased array radars. Video loop shows approx 2 hours of data.Dan: Scientists put human gene into monkeys to make them smarter, human-likeMaking monkeys more smart and human-like, scientists have used gene-editing to insert human brain gene in a monkey. For the first time, a team of Chinese scientists made use of gene-editing techniques to make monkey brains more human-like. By the end, the monkeys, rhesus macaques, got smarter and had superior memories as compared to the unaltered monkeys.The team doubts this is a true story and that leads Shahin to his first rant on the show when he complains about previously reputable publications succumbing to clickbait. We're More Likely Than Not Living In A Computer Simulation, MIT Professor SuggestsAn MIT professor has said he believes it's "more likely than not" that we are living in some kind of simulated universe, given that we ourselves are not far away from being capable of creating hyper-realistic simulations ourselves.Yet another story that raises eyebrows. This one leads the RFHPC team to create a new award on the spot! Listen in to hear the full conversation. Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletterhpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2019/04/black-hole-seen-with-data-to-match.htmlEnterprises going HPC, Chips go Open Source, China goes for the top spothttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/_zauMUi4e-s/enterprises-going-hpc-chips-go-open.htmlAIChinaExascaleMixed PrecisionNvidiaOpen SourceTOP500rich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Thu, 11 Apr 2019 15:31:06 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-8852891992824699521We continue to want to make these introductions pretty brief here but not this time, apparently! Here's this week's synopsis. <br /><h3>Nvidia GTC 2019 announcements</h3>We discussed the recent GTC conference. Dan has been attending since well before it became the big and important conference that it is today. We get a quick update on what was covered: <a href="https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/03/18/gtc-2019-datacenter-jensen-huang-keynote/">the long keynote</a>, automotive and robotics, the Mellanox acquisition, how a growing fraction of enterprise applications will be AI. In agreement with the message from GTC, Shahin re-iterates his long-held belief that the future of enterprise applications will be HPC and once again asserts that AI as we know it today is a subset of HPC. Not everyone agrees. Henry brings up varying precisions in AI and a discussion ensues about what is HPC. There seems to be agreement that regardless of what label you put on it, it is the same (HPC) industry and community that is driving this new trend. And that led to a discussion of selling into the enterprise and the need for new models and vocabulary and such. Speaking of varying precision, there is also Nvidia's new <a href="https://devblogs.nvidia.com/nvidia-automatic-mixed-precision-tensorflow/">automatic mixed precision</a> capability for Tensorflow and there is a bit of discussion on that. <br /><h3>China plans multibillion dollar investment in supercomputing</h3>On the heels of the Aurora announcement, there was news in <a href="https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3002117/china-plans-multibillion-dollar-investment-knock-us-top-spot-fastest">the South China Morning Post that the top spot in supercomputing</a> is something the country is investing in. No surprise, but interesting to see, and consistent with the general view that supercomputing drives competitive strength. <br /><h3>Catch of the Week</h3><img alt="" height="201" src="https://radiofreehpc.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/RFHPC-catch2-300x201.png" width="300" /><img alt="" height="260" src="https://radiofreehpc.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/RFHPC-catch1.png" width="175" /> Henry: <br /><blockquote><h3><a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds-of-millions-of-user-passwords-in-plain-text-for-years/">Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years</a></h3>Hundreds of millions of&nbsp;Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees — in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Facebook says an ongoing investigation has so far found no indication that employees have abused access to this data.</blockquote>Shahin: <br /><blockquote><h3><a href="https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334489#">MIPS R6 Architecture Now Available for Open Use</a></h3>MIPS 32-bit and 64-bit architecture – the most recent version, release 6 – will become available Thursday (March 28) for anyone to download at&nbsp;<a href="https://mipsopen.com/" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: 300;" target="new">MIPS Open web page.</a> Under the MIPS Open program, participants have full access to the MIPS R6 architecture free of charge – with no licensing or royalty fees.</blockquote>Dan: <br /><blockquote><h3><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/20/steffan_needham_aws_rampage_prison_sentence_voova/">Vengeful sacked IT bod destroyed ex-employer's AWS cloud accounts. Now he'll spent rest of 2019 in the clink</a></h3>An irate sacked techie who rampaged through his former employer's AWS accounts with a purloined login, nuking 23 servers and triggering a wave of redundancies, has been jailed. &nbsp; <br /><h3><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/20/switch_config_death/">Dead LAN's hand: IT staff 'locked out' of data center's core switch after the only bloke who could log into it dies</a></h3>'We can replace it but we have no idea what the config is on the device'</blockquote>Listen in to hear the full conversation.<br /><br />&nbsp; <em><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode226/RFHPC226_Enterprise-HPC.mp3">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></em><br /><br />&nbsp; <a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><em>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</em></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/_zauMUi4e-s" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noWe continue to want to make these introductions pretty brief here but not this time, apparently! Here's this week's synopsis. Nvidia GTC 2019 announcementsWe discussed the recent GTC conference. Dan has been attending since well before it became the big aRich BruecknerWe continue to want to make these introductions pretty brief here but not this time, apparently! Here's this week's synopsis. Nvidia GTC 2019 announcementsWe discussed the recent GTC conference. Dan has been attending since well before it became the big and important conference that it is today. We get a quick update on what was covered: the long keynote, automotive and robotics, the Mellanox acquisition, how a growing fraction of enterprise applications will be AI. In agreement with the message from GTC, Shahin re-iterates his long-held belief that the future of enterprise applications will be HPC and once again asserts that AI as we know it today is a subset of HPC. Not everyone agrees. Henry brings up varying precisions in AI and a discussion ensues about what is HPC. There seems to be agreement that regardless of what label you put on it, it is the same (HPC) industry and community that is driving this new trend. And that led to a discussion of selling into the enterprise and the need for new models and vocabulary and such. Speaking of varying precision, there is also Nvidia's new automatic mixed precision capability for Tensorflow and there is a bit of discussion on that. China plans multibillion dollar investment in supercomputingOn the heels of the Aurora announcement, there was news in the South China Morning Post that the top spot in supercomputing is something the country is investing in. No surprise, but interesting to see, and consistent with the general view that supercomputing drives competitive strength. Catch of the Week Henry: Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for YearsHundreds of millions of&nbsp;Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees — in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Facebook says an ongoing investigation has so far found no indication that employees have abused access to this data.Shahin: MIPS R6 Architecture Now Available for Open UseMIPS 32-bit and 64-bit architecture – the most recent version, release 6 – will become available Thursday (March 28) for anyone to download at&nbsp;MIPS Open web page. Under the MIPS Open program, participants have full access to the MIPS R6 architecture free of charge – with no licensing or royalty fees.Dan: Vengeful sacked IT bod destroyed ex-employer's AWS cloud accounts. Now he'll spent rest of 2019 in the clinkAn irate sacked techie who rampaged through his former employer's AWS accounts with a purloined login, nuking 23 servers and triggering a wave of redundancies, has been jailed. &nbsp; Dead LAN's hand: IT staff 'locked out' of data center's core switch after the only bloke who could log into it dies'We can replace it but we have no idea what the config is on the device'Listen in to hear the full conversation. &nbsp; Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed &nbsp; Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletterhpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2019/04/enterprises-going-hpc-chips-go-open.htmlMulticore Scaling Slow Down, and Fooling AIhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/SlFytt4Srd4/multicore-scaling-slow-down-and-fooling.htmlAcceleratorsAIAmdahl’s LawCybersecurityMulticoreOpen SourceScalabilityrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Sun, 24 Mar 2019 23:40:09 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-5928904289332871211The team has an animated discussion about multicore scaling, how easy it seems to be to mislead AI systems, and some good sized catches of the week. A common thread is "data" as is often the case these days.<br /><br />We continue with making these introductions pretty brief here. This time, we include not only the links but also the first paragraph of the linked page as a block quote so you have a bit more information about what is discussed.<br /><h3><a href="https://www.extremetech.com/computing/286809-specialized-chips-wont-save-us-from-impending-accelerator-wall">Specialized Chips Won’t Save Us From Impending ‘Accelerator Wall’</a></h3><blockquote>As CPU performance improvements have slowed down, we’ve seen the <a href="https://www.extremetech.com/tag/semiconductors">semiconductor industry</a> move towards accelerator cards to provide dramatically better results. Nvidia has been a major beneficiary of this shift, but it’s part of the same trend driving research into neural network accelerators, FPGAs, and products like Google’s TPU. These accelerators have delivered tremendous performance boosts in recent years, raising hopes that they present a path forward, even as Moore’s law scaling runs out. A new paper suggests this may be less true than many would like.</blockquote><h3><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/06/ai_adversarial_attacks/">Nice 'AI solution' you've bought yourself there. Not deploying it direct to users, right? Here's why maybe you shouldn't</a></h3><blockquote>Top tip: Ask your vendor what it plans to do about adversarial examples.<br /><strong class="trailer">RSA</strong> It’s trivial to trick neural networks into making completely incorrect decisions, just by feeding them dodgy input data, and there are no foolproof ways to avoid this, a Googler warned today.</blockquote><h3>Catch of the Week</h3><img alt="" height="201" src="https://radiofreehpc.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/RFHPC-catch2-300x201.png" width="300" /><img alt="" height="260" src="https://radiofreehpc.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/RFHPC-catch1.png" width="175" /><br /><h3><a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/myequifax-com-bypasses-credit-freeze-pin/">MyEquifax.com Bypasses Credit Freeze PIN</a></h3><blockquote>Most people who have frozen their credit files with <strong>Equifax</strong> have been issued a numeric Personal Identification Number (PIN) which is supposed to be required before a freeze can be lifted or thawed. Unfortunately, if you don’t already have an account at the credit bureau’s new <a href="https://my.equifax.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">myEquifax portal</a>, it may be simple for identity thieves to lift an existing credit freeze at Equifax and bypass the PIN armed with little more than your, name, Social Security number and birthday.</blockquote><br /><header class="post-header"><h3><a href="https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2019/03/06/announcing-the-open-sourcing-of-windows-calculator/">Announcing the Open Sourcing of Windows Calculator</a></h3></header><br /><blockquote>Today, we’re excited to announce that we are open sourcing Windows Calculator on <a href="https://aka.ms/calc">GitHub</a> under the MIT License. This includes the source code, build system, unit tests, and product roadmap. Our goal is to build an even better user experience in partnership with the community. We are encouraging your fresh perspectives and increased participation to help define the future of Calculator.</blockquote><h3><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-sues-us-prodding-prove-suspicions/">Huawei Sues The US, Prodding It to Prove Suspicions</a></h3><blockquote><span class="lede">THE WORLD'S LARGEST </span>telecommunications-equipment company, China's <a href="https://www.wired.com/tag/huawei/">Huawei</a>, is suing the US government. But the suit isn't just about US law. It's part of Huawei's larger campaign to defend its role as a global provider of telecom gear amid fears that its technology is or could be used by the Chinese government for spying. In essence, Huawei is challenging the US government to prove its suspicions.</blockquote>Listen in to hear the full conversation.<br /><br /><em><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode225/RFHPC225_Multicore-Scaling-AI.mp3">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></em><br /><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><em>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</em></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/SlFytt4Srd4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noThe team has an animated discussion about multicore scaling, how easy it seems to be to mislead AI systems, and some good sized catches of the week. A common thread is "data" as is often the case these days. We continue with making these introductions preRich BruecknerThe team has an animated discussion about multicore scaling, how easy it seems to be to mislead AI systems, and some good sized catches of the week. A common thread is "data" as is often the case these days. We continue with making these introductions pretty brief here. This time, we include not only the links but also the first paragraph of the linked page as a block quote so you have a bit more information about what is discussed. Specialized Chips Won’t Save Us From Impending ‘Accelerator Wall’As CPU performance improvements have slowed down, we’ve seen the semiconductor industry move towards accelerator cards to provide dramatically better results. Nvidia has been a major beneficiary of this shift, but it’s part of the same trend driving research into neural network accelerators, FPGAs, and products like Google’s TPU. These accelerators have delivered tremendous performance boosts in recent years, raising hopes that they present a path forward, even as Moore’s law scaling runs out. A new paper suggests this may be less true than many would like.Nice 'AI solution' you've bought yourself there. Not deploying it direct to users, right? Here's why maybe you shouldn'tTop tip: Ask your vendor what it plans to do about adversarial examples. RSA It’s trivial to trick neural networks into making completely incorrect decisions, just by feeding them dodgy input data, and there are no foolproof ways to avoid this, a Googler warned today.Catch of the Week MyEquifax.com Bypasses Credit Freeze PINMost people who have frozen their credit files with Equifax have been issued a numeric Personal Identification Number (PIN) which is supposed to be required before a freeze can be lifted or thawed. Unfortunately, if you don’t already have an account at the credit bureau’s new myEquifax portal, it may be simple for identity thieves to lift an existing credit freeze at Equifax and bypass the PIN armed with little more than your, name, Social Security number and birthday. Announcing the Open Sourcing of Windows Calculator Today, we’re excited to announce that we are open sourcing Windows Calculator on GitHub under the MIT License. This includes the source code, build system, unit tests, and product roadmap. Our goal is to build an even better user experience in partnership with the community. We are encouraging your fresh perspectives and increased participation to help define the future of Calculator.Huawei Sues The US, Prodding It to Prove SuspicionsTHE WORLD'S LARGEST telecommunications-equipment company, China's Huawei, is suing the US government. But the suit isn't just about US law. It's part of Huawei's larger campaign to defend its role as a global provider of telecom gear amid fears that its technology is or could be used by the Chinese government for spying. In essence, Huawei is challenging the US government to prove its suspicions.Listen in to hear the full conversation. Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletterhpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2019/03/multicore-scaling-slow-down-and-fooling.htmlAI: Realness and Biashttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/rLpCD80nkmo/ai-realness-and-bias.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Sat, 16 Mar 2019 01:09:41 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-371971299663281788Starting with this episode, we'll get a bit more efficient in describing the episodes. Please let us know if you prefer the long format. If you just subscribe on iTunes and never see these words, well, that tells us something too!<br /><br />In this episode, the team discusses AI, bias in AI, and just how real actual AI out there is. Ethics in AI, policy, legal framework are all big threads here. The trigger is the rather funny article <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/22/artificial_intelligence_you_know_it_isnt_real_yeah/">Artificial Intelligence, You Know it isn’t real, yeah?</a><br /><br /><h3>Catch of the Week</h3><img alt="" height="201" src="https://radiofreehpc.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/RFHPC-catch2-300x201.png" width="300" /><img alt="" height="260" src="https://radiofreehpc.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/RFHPC-catch1.png" width="175" /><br /><br /><br />Shahin applauds NIST’s new <a href="https://www.complianceweek.com/news/news-article/understanding-nists-new-risk-management-framework">Risk Management Framework,</a>&nbsp;and especially the inclusion of supply chain security, something he and Henry keep bringing up.<br /><br />Henry discusses sensationalism in technical coverage by the example of an article that says&nbsp;<a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612974/once-hailed-as-unhackable-blockchains-are-now-getting-hacked/">blockchains can be hacked</a>&nbsp;but lacks enough depth and thus fails to impress. As expected, Shahin comes to the defense of the technology, explaining that it depends on the consensus algorithm and participation, etc. not just blockchain per se. Discussion ensues about all manner of blockchains and the spectrum that is forming there with permissioned and permissionless chains.<br /><br />Dan: In a switch from uplifting news to scary ones, Dan shares the news that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/02/23/kalashnikov-assault-rifle-changed-world-now-theres-kalashnikov-kamikaze-drone/">Kalashnikov rolls out a weaponized suicide drone.</a><br /><br />Listen in to hear the full conversation.<br /><br /><em><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode224/RFHPC224_AI-Realness-Bias.mp3">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></em><br /><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><em>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</em></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/rLpCD80nkmo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noStarting with this episode, we'll get a bit more efficient in describing the episodes. Please let us know if you prefer the long format. If you just subscribe on iTunes and never see these words, well, that tells us something too! In this episode, the teaRich BruecknerStarting with this episode, we'll get a bit more efficient in describing the episodes. Please let us know if you prefer the long format. If you just subscribe on iTunes and never see these words, well, that tells us something too! In this episode, the team discusses AI, bias in AI, and just how real actual AI out there is. Ethics in AI, policy, legal framework are all big threads here. The trigger is the rather funny article Artificial Intelligence, You Know it isn’t real, yeah? Catch of the Week Shahin applauds NIST’s new Risk Management Framework,&nbsp;and especially the inclusion of supply chain security, something he and Henry keep bringing up. Henry discusses sensationalism in technical coverage by the example of an article that says&nbsp;blockchains can be hacked&nbsp;but lacks enough depth and thus fails to impress. As expected, Shahin comes to the defense of the technology, explaining that it depends on the consensus algorithm and participation, etc. not just blockchain per se. Discussion ensues about all manner of blockchains and the spectrum that is forming there with permissioned and permissionless chains. Dan: In a switch from uplifting news to scary ones, Dan shares the news that&nbsp;Kalashnikov rolls out a weaponized suicide drone. Listen in to hear the full conversation. Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletterhpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2019/03/ai-realness-and-bias.htmlNvidia, Mellanox: Married!http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/fcDzFfHH-i8/nvidia-mellanox-married.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Mon, 11 Mar 2019 11:44:53 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-6685992671968006618Big news in the industry today was Nvidia buying Mellanox for $6.9B. This called fo an emergency session of our crack panel.<br /><br />While it will be several months before the full impact of this merger is felt, the RFHPC team believes this will change both the HPC and the Datacenter markets. It also signals Nvidia's journey towards becoming more of a systems company and gives them a better shot at the enterprise AI market.<br /><br />This is also good news for all the alternatives in the market, Shahin and Henry believe. There are a large number of AI chips in the works around the globe, and a growing number of interconnect options on the market. They will now have a chance to present themselves as a more neutral option.<br /><br />Since the combined company will now represent a bigger portion of the total bill, it has a strengthened hand in the face of growing competition, while, on the other hand, becoming a more visible part of the total system cost, inviting new competition.<br /><br />Listen in to hear the full conversation.<br /><br /><em><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode223/RFHPC223_Nvidia-Mellanox.mp3">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></em><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><em>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</em></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/fcDzFfHH-i8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noBig news in the industry today was Nvidia buying Mellanox for $6.9B. This called fo an emergency session of our crack panel. While it will be several months before the full impact of this merger is felt, the RFHPC team believes this will change both the HRich BruecknerBig news in the industry today was Nvidia buying Mellanox for $6.9B. This called fo an emergency session of our crack panel. While it will be several months before the full impact of this merger is felt, the RFHPC team believes this will change both the HPC and the Datacenter markets. It also signals Nvidia's journey towards becoming more of a systems company and gives them a better shot at the enterprise AI market. This is also good news for all the alternatives in the market, Shahin and Henry believe. There are a large number of AI chips in the works around the globe, and a growing number of interconnect options on the market. They will now have a chance to present themselves as a more neutral option. Since the combined company will now represent a bigger portion of the total bill, it has a strengthened hand in the face of growing competition, while, on the other hand, becoming a more visible part of the total system cost, inviting new competition. Listen in to hear the full conversation. Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletterhpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2019/03/nvidia-mellanox-married.htmlArm for Exascale is Cominghttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/x53k3GML9I4/arm-for-exascale-is-coming.htmlArmExascaleRISCVrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Sat, 09 Mar 2019 16:11:34 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-5286292938905258874The show starts with a brief reference to Henry’s "Gator" nickname, a shout out to listeners 13, 14, and 15, plus a bad Arm processor pun. (Puns are the lowest form of humor other than limericks, Dan wits.)<br /><br />This is an Arm heavy show, with our opening discussion concerning the Arm system at Sandia and <a href="https://insidehpc.com/2019/02/astra-a-large-scale-arm64-hpc-deployment/">a talk given by Sandia’s Michael Aguilar</a> at the recent HPC Advisory Council’s Stanford Conference. The new system, dubbed Astra, was built by HPE and is the biggest Arm-based super on the Top500 list at 2.3 PFlop/s.<br /><br />The guys discuss how quickly the system was brought up and how Sandia didn’t run into any major problems along the way – which is unusual for a system utilizing a new processor. We take a tangent into a discussion of new chip architectures and how this is leading to more options for customers.<br /><br />Keeping with the Arm theme, the conversation moves to the new <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/article/3342998/arm-introduces-neoverse-high-performance-cpus-for-servers-5g.html">Arm Neoverse 128 core server processor</a>. The guys are a bit agog over the 7nm size of the processor, wondering who is fabbing the chip, guessing TSMC. The new chip is 2.5x faster than previous Arm server processors and, according to Arm, also uses 30% less power.<br /><br />The conversation moves to <a href="https://riscv.org/">RISC V</a> and whether it will be used as an accelerator or a CPU – eventually agreeing that it can be both.&nbsp; We discuss how the chip can be used in various ways and how it can potentially replace a lot of things, including ASICs, which is pretty mind blowing.<br /><h3>Catch of the Week</h3>Henry’s Catch of the Week concerns a new hardware hack that allows miscreants to <a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/02/new-breed-of-fuel-pump-skimmer-uses-sms-and-bluetooth/">capture payment info from a phone at the gas station</a>. The bad guy uses a Bluetooth based skimmer to send payment info from contactless payment cards (or phones assumedly) via SMS message to the miscreant. You can read the frightening details at the link above, which goes to Krebs on Security – a great site if you want to scare yourself senseless.<br /><br />Shahin chimes in with something even scarier – the <a href="http://mg.lol/blog/omg-cable/">Evil USB Cable</a>:&nbsp; a USB patch cable that has an embedded wifi transmitter that can send all of the data flowing through that cable to a bad guy. Yikes!<br /><br />Dan attempts to put minds at ease by exposing the truth behind a hacking myth:&nbsp; can a hacker easily get control of your laptop’s webcam? The answer? <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/should-you-be-scared-of-your-laptops-webcam/?ftag=TREc64629f&amp;bhid=93446286">Nope, they can’t</a>. A Wall Street Journal writer worked with a highly qualified white hat hacker to see just what it would take for a hacker to gain control of a Windows or Mac embedded camera.<br /><br />It turns out that penetrating a laptop camera is pretty difficult and not really possible unless the user cooperates to make it work. On the Windows side, the writer had to disable Microsoft’s anti-virus and real time virus checking in order to get the hacker payload into her system. The file was also flagged as dangerous by Microsoft Word, so she had to dismiss that warning as well.<br /><br />The Mac OS was even more difficult for the hacker to penetrate. First, the user had to install LibreOffice, meaning she had to disable Mac security settings that prevent unverified software from installing on her system. She also had to disable the security inside LibreOffice.<br /><br />Take a look at the article and see if you agree with Dan, who believes that laptop cameras can’t be hacked by outsiders unless you essentially invite them in by disabling your OS and application security.<br /><br />Subscribe on iTunes or Download this week’s edition of Radio Free HPC for a chance of winning out eternal gratitude and respect!<br /><br /><em><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode222/RFHPC222_Arm_Exascale.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></em><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><em>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</em></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/x53k3GML9I4" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noThe show starts with a brief reference to Henry’s "Gator" nickname, a shout out to listeners 13, 14, and 15, plus a bad Arm processor pun. (Puns are the lowest form of humor other than limericks, Dan wits.) This is an Arm heavy show, with our opening discRich BruecknerThe show starts with a brief reference to Henry’s "Gator" nickname, a shout out to listeners 13, 14, and 15, plus a bad Arm processor pun. (Puns are the lowest form of humor other than limericks, Dan wits.) This is an Arm heavy show, with our opening discussion concerning the Arm system at Sandia and a talk given by Sandia’s Michael Aguilar at the recent HPC Advisory Council’s Stanford Conference. The new system, dubbed Astra, was built by HPE and is the biggest Arm-based super on the Top500 list at 2.3 PFlop/s. The guys discuss how quickly the system was brought up and how Sandia didn’t run into any major problems along the way – which is unusual for a system utilizing a new processor. We take a tangent into a discussion of new chip architectures and how this is leading to more options for customers. Keeping with the Arm theme, the conversation moves to the new Arm Neoverse 128 core server processor. The guys are a bit agog over the 7nm size of the processor, wondering who is fabbing the chip, guessing TSMC. The new chip is 2.5x faster than previous Arm server processors and, according to Arm, also uses 30% less power. The conversation moves to RISC V and whether it will be used as an accelerator or a CPU – eventually agreeing that it can be both.&nbsp; We discuss how the chip can be used in various ways and how it can potentially replace a lot of things, including ASICs, which is pretty mind blowing. Catch of the WeekHenry’s Catch of the Week concerns a new hardware hack that allows miscreants to capture payment info from a phone at the gas station. The bad guy uses a Bluetooth based skimmer to send payment info from contactless payment cards (or phones assumedly) via SMS message to the miscreant. You can read the frightening details at the link above, which goes to Krebs on Security – a great site if you want to scare yourself senseless. Shahin chimes in with something even scarier – the Evil USB Cable:&nbsp; a USB patch cable that has an embedded wifi transmitter that can send all of the data flowing through that cable to a bad guy. Yikes! Dan attempts to put minds at ease by exposing the truth behind a hacking myth:&nbsp; can a hacker easily get control of your laptop’s webcam? The answer? Nope, they can’t. A Wall Street Journal writer worked with a highly qualified white hat hacker to see just what it would take for a hacker to gain control of a Windows or Mac embedded camera. It turns out that penetrating a laptop camera is pretty difficult and not really possible unless the user cooperates to make it work. On the Windows side, the writer had to disable Microsoft’s anti-virus and real time virus checking in order to get the hacker payload into her system. The file was also flagged as dangerous by Microsoft Word, so she had to dismiss that warning as well. The Mac OS was even more difficult for the hacker to penetrate. First, the user had to install LibreOffice, meaning she had to disable Mac security settings that prevent unverified software from installing on her system. She also had to disable the security inside LibreOffice. Take a look at the article and see if you agree with Dan, who believes that laptop cameras can’t be hacked by outsiders unless you essentially invite them in by disabling your OS and application security. Subscribe on iTunes or Download this week’s edition of Radio Free HPC for a chance of winning out eternal gratitude and respect! Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletterhpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2019/03/arm-for-exascale-is-coming.htmlThe sinking of the Itanic, a respectful farewellhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/FyU7u0CiwVk/the-sinking-of-itanic-respectful.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Tue, 05 Mar 2019 01:15:10 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-4353797785477393596Our conversation begins with Dan berating Henry for cheaping out on a new headset for our Radio Free HPC recordings. (Henry has since relented and pried open his wallet to purchase a truly fine headset.)<br /><br />Finally, we get on to the show proper. <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/02/01/intel_kills_itanium_again/">After years of futility, Intel has finally put a stake in the heart of their Itanium processor.</a> The final shipment will take place in 2021. The boys discuss some Itanium history and reasons behind the end of the processor. Shahin gives us a tutorial on the history of 64 bit computing and we discuss the chip wars in general.<br /><br />Following a respectful farewell to Itanium and all that it offered, we moved on to discuss how the European exascale effort is shaping up. Recent news articles are discussing how countries in the European Union are ganging up in an effort to win the honor of hosting the fastest supercomputer in Europe.<br /><br /><a href="http://primeurmagazine.com/weekly/AE-PR-03-19-4.html">The first consortium consists of Nordic countries Finland, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, plus the Czech Republic, Belgium, and The Netherlands.</a> Two of the advantages these countries have are power costs that are half of the European average, along with temperatures to match (which will help with cooling).<br /><br />The guys talk about what the term ‘pre-exascale’ really means. Is it a 100 PB system? 200 PB? 300 PB? Tune into the broadcast to hear the thrilling answer. We also discuss the composition of the machine in terms of processors and accelerators. <br /><h2>Catch of the Week</h2><img alt="" height="201" src="https://radiofreehpc.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/RFHPC-catch2-300x201.png" width="300" /><img alt="" height="260" src="https://radiofreehpc.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/RFHPC-catch1.png" width="175" /><br /><br /><br />Henry’s Catch of the Week confirms his distain for all things crypto currency related. <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/bitcoin-exchange-presidents-sudden-demise-puts-millions-out-of-reach/">A Canadian bitcoin exchange president dies suddenly</a> and takes his password to his grave, taking with him the coins of more than 100,000 users said to total more than $130 million US. Henry is vindicated and Dan heartily agrees with him and piles on with “I hope Bitcoin goes below zero.” Shahin defends Bitcoin and Blockchain in general.<br /><br />Shahin shares a game called <a href="https://lastmangame.fandom.com/wiki/Last_Man-The_Game_About_Avoiding_The_Game_Wiki">The Last Man</a>, where people compete to become the last person to learn about an event, such as who won the Superbowl.<br /><br />Dan’s Catch of the Week is led by the admission that his comprehension of quantum computing is fleeting at best. Sometimes he gets it, and other times he doesn’t. Something that might help him get over the quantum hump is a series of <a href="https://www.epiqc.cs.uchicago.edu/qc-history/">comic books published by the NSF’s EPiQC</a> that cover quantum computing history and how it works.<br /><br />Be sure to download this episode of Radio Free HPC, you could be our 16<sup>th</sup> listener!<br /><br /><em><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode221/RFHPC221_Itanic.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></em><br /><br /><em><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter">Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</a></em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/FyU7u0CiwVk" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noOur conversation begins with Dan berating Henry for cheaping out on a new headset for our Radio Free HPC recordings. (Henry has since relented and pried open his wallet to purchase a truly fine headset.) Finally, we get on to the show proper. After years Rich BruecknerOur conversation begins with Dan berating Henry for cheaping out on a new headset for our Radio Free HPC recordings. (Henry has since relented and pried open his wallet to purchase a truly fine headset.) Finally, we get on to the show proper. After years of futility, Intel has finally put a stake in the heart of their Itanium processor. The final shipment will take place in 2021. The boys discuss some Itanium history and reasons behind the end of the processor. Shahin gives us a tutorial on the history of 64 bit computing and we discuss the chip wars in general. Following a respectful farewell to Itanium and all that it offered, we moved on to discuss how the European exascale effort is shaping up. Recent news articles are discussing how countries in the European Union are ganging up in an effort to win the honor of hosting the fastest supercomputer in Europe. The first consortium consists of Nordic countries Finland, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, plus the Czech Republic, Belgium, and The Netherlands. Two of the advantages these countries have are power costs that are half of the European average, along with temperatures to match (which will help with cooling). The guys talk about what the term ‘pre-exascale’ really means. Is it a 100 PB system? 200 PB? 300 PB? Tune into the broadcast to hear the thrilling answer. We also discuss the composition of the machine in terms of processors and accelerators. Catch of the Week Henry’s Catch of the Week confirms his distain for all things crypto currency related. A Canadian bitcoin exchange president dies suddenly and takes his password to his grave, taking with him the coins of more than 100,000 users said to total more than $130 million US. Henry is vindicated and Dan heartily agrees with him and piles on with “I hope Bitcoin goes below zero.” Shahin defends Bitcoin and Blockchain in general. Shahin shares a game called The Last Man, where people compete to become the last person to learn about an event, such as who won the Superbowl. Dan’s Catch of the Week is led by the admission that his comprehension of quantum computing is fleeting at best. Sometimes he gets it, and other times he doesn’t. Something that might help him get over the quantum hump is a series of comic books published by the NSF’s EPiQC that cover quantum computing history and how it works. Be sure to download this episode of Radio Free HPC, you could be our 16th listener! Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletterhpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-sinking-of-itanic-respectful.htmlSupercomputing to Modernize the Electric Gridhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/Lz-pBHm9w-E/supercomputing-to-modernize-electric.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Thu, 14 Feb 2019 23:19:48 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-7861348393879091828We open the show by talking some weather. It’s so cold at Henry’s house (in Minnesota) that he’s becoming a human superconductor and quantum computing experimenters are showing up at his house to test their systems under uber cold conditions. Shahin adds an inane joke about cold and levitation that Dan threatens to cut out of the final edit of the show.<br /><br />Our first topic is how <a href="https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/llnl-team-explores-electric-grid-modernization-via-hpc/">Lawrence Livermore National Lab is working to simulate and then help modernize the electric grid</a>. We talk about how the ‘new grid’ will need to be two-way, both delivering and accepting electricity. The new grid will also have to communicate with smart homes and other buildings in order to predict demand and adjust real time pricing.<br /><br />When the discussion turned to solar power, Henry related the problems of low payouts from utilities to consumers who have installed solar panels. Dan pointed out the current shortfalls in solar power, bringing up an example of the world’s largest solar plants still not generating enough juice to power the NYC subway system. Henry called Dan a dirty liar and an embarrassment to his family. Dan provided the following links to justify his take:<br /><ol><li><a href="https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Subway_FAQ:_Facts_and_Figures#Power">On an annual basis, the NYC subway system uses 1.8 billion kilowatt hour of electricity.</a> This is according to NYCsubway.org. This is 1,800 megawatts of electricity</li><li><a href="https://www.originenergy.com.au/blog/lifestyle/5-largest-solar-farms-in-the-world.html">According to an article published by Origin Energy on 10/24/18</a>, the largest single location solar field is located in India and generates 648 MW of electricity. This is obviously less than the 1,800 megawatts necessary to power the NYC subway. Dan is vindicated.</li></ol><a href="https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/2019/01/17/a-sneak-peek-at-19-science-simulations-for-the-summit-supercomputer-in-2019/">Next up, we discuss some of the applications that are being run on the Summit supercomputer, the world’s largest system</a>. Some of the applications include exploring the origin of the universe and whole-cell simulation, along with a host of other stuff. Our discussion strays into the recent announcement that scientists in Israel have supposedly cured cancer. <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/science-and-health/no-israeli-company-doesn-t-have-a-cure-for-cancer-1.6900631">This claim has since been debunked, or at least partially debunked…leaving it barely bunked at all.</a> &nbsp;As the conversation strays even further, Shahin suggests putting a giant mirror behind the sun in order to give us more solar energy. One hell of a good idea.<br /><h3>Catch of the Week</h3>Shahin’s Catch of the Week starts as a mix of buzzwords combined together but clarifies itself (a bit) through explanation. What he’s talking about is a paper titled <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09256">“Semi-device-independent quantum money with coherent states”</a> that discusses using quantum computing to create unforgeable quantum banknotes and credit cards – definitely a good thing.<br /><br /><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-vs-apple-tech-s-biggest-cold-war-heats-will-n965236">Dan’s Catch of the Week is the dust up between Apple and Facebook and how the two goliaths have become embroiled in a slap fight</a>. In the ensuing discussion, Dan coins the phrase “if you’re not paying for an app, it’s a virus.” The gang also points out Facebook’s naiveté (whether it’s real or put on) when it comes to user privacy issues. Dan, warming to the topic of tech giants controlling our lives, brings up the example of Microsoft’s new “Newsguard” browser feature that passes judgement on whether news sites are credible or nor credible. Newsguard is a browser extension that users can activate on new versions of Microsoft’s Edge browser. Here are a few representative discussions about Newsguard and possible implications:&nbsp; <a href="https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-thought-itd-be-a-good-idea-to-add-a-fake-news-1831984231">Gizmodo</a>, <a href="https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/330664/microsoft-allies-with-newsguard-on-flawed-news-rat.html">Publishing Insider</a>, and <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/01/29/nolte-microsofts-newsguard-blacklist-admits-credible-outlets-spread-fake-news/">Breitbart</a>.<br /><br />Shahin believes that Newsguard is an AI fueled tool, which, upon further research, turns out to be incorrect. <a href="https://www.newsguardtech.com/how-it-works/">Newsguard uses ‘trained journalists’ to review and rate thousands of news and information websites.</a> After a little more desultory conversation, the podcast ends on this disquieting note.<br /><br /><em><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode220/RFHPC220_Electric_Grid.mp3">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></em><br /><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><em>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</em></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/Lz-pBHm9w-E" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noWe open the show by talking some weather. It’s so cold at Henry’s house (in Minnesota) that he’s becoming a human superconductor and quantum computing experimenters are showing up at his house to test their systems under uber cold conditions. Shahin adds Rich BruecknerWe open the show by talking some weather. It’s so cold at Henry’s house (in Minnesota) that he’s becoming a human superconductor and quantum computing experimenters are showing up at his house to test their systems under uber cold conditions. Shahin adds an inane joke about cold and levitation that Dan threatens to cut out of the final edit of the show. Our first topic is how Lawrence Livermore National Lab is working to simulate and then help modernize the electric grid. We talk about how the ‘new grid’ will need to be two-way, both delivering and accepting electricity. The new grid will also have to communicate with smart homes and other buildings in order to predict demand and adjust real time pricing. When the discussion turned to solar power, Henry related the problems of low payouts from utilities to consumers who have installed solar panels. Dan pointed out the current shortfalls in solar power, bringing up an example of the world’s largest solar plants still not generating enough juice to power the NYC subway system. Henry called Dan a dirty liar and an embarrassment to his family. Dan provided the following links to justify his take: On an annual basis, the NYC subway system uses 1.8 billion kilowatt hour of electricity. This is according to NYCsubway.org. This is 1,800 megawatts of electricityAccording to an article published by Origin Energy on 10/24/18, the largest single location solar field is located in India and generates 648 MW of electricity. This is obviously less than the 1,800 megawatts necessary to power the NYC subway. Dan is vindicated.Next up, we discuss some of the applications that are being run on the Summit supercomputer, the world’s largest system. Some of the applications include exploring the origin of the universe and whole-cell simulation, along with a host of other stuff. Our discussion strays into the recent announcement that scientists in Israel have supposedly cured cancer. This claim has since been debunked, or at least partially debunked…leaving it barely bunked at all. &nbsp;As the conversation strays even further, Shahin suggests putting a giant mirror behind the sun in order to give us more solar energy. One hell of a good idea. Catch of the WeekShahin’s Catch of the Week starts as a mix of buzzwords combined together but clarifies itself (a bit) through explanation. What he’s talking about is a paper titled “Semi-device-independent quantum money with coherent states” that discusses using quantum computing to create unforgeable quantum banknotes and credit cards – definitely a good thing. Dan’s Catch of the Week is the dust up between Apple and Facebook and how the two goliaths have become embroiled in a slap fight. In the ensuing discussion, Dan coins the phrase “if you’re not paying for an app, it’s a virus.” The gang also points out Facebook’s naiveté (whether it’s real or put on) when it comes to user privacy issues. Dan, warming to the topic of tech giants controlling our lives, brings up the example of Microsoft’s new “Newsguard” browser feature that passes judgement on whether news sites are credible or nor credible. Newsguard is a browser extension that users can activate on new versions of Microsoft’s Edge browser. Here are a few representative discussions about Newsguard and possible implications:&nbsp; Gizmodo, Publishing Insider, and Breitbart. Shahin believes that Newsguard is an AI fueled tool, which, upon further research, turns out to be incorrect. Newsguard uses ‘trained journalists’ to review and rate thousands of news and information websites. After a little more desultory conversation, the podcast ends on this disquieting note. Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletterhpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2019/02/supercomputing-to-modernize-electric.htmlWhat's an AI Supercomputer? What's up with software SMP?http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/f_vAjKdfeRo/whats-ai-supercomputer-whats-up-with.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Thu, 14 Feb 2019 23:18:15 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-6893182701456641772We start our discussion by contemplating the fact that Shahin doesn’t have a middle name (he says he never needed one) and touching on why Henry has picked up the nick name ‘Gator’ Newman.<br /><h3>What's an AI supercomputer?</h3>Our first topic is whether a supercomputer can or cannot be a “AI Supercomputer.” <a href="https://insidehpc.com/2019/01/france-to-double-supercomputing-capacity-with-jean-zay-ai-system-from-hpe/">This is based on France (along with HPE) unveiling a new AI system</a> which will double the capacity of French supercomputing. So what are the differences between a traditional super and a AI super. According to Dan, it mostly comes down to how many GPUs the system is configured with, while Shahin and Henry think it has something to do with the datasets. Send us a note or a tweet if you have an opinion on this.<br /><h3>Software SMP hits 10k</h3>The guys also discuss <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190121005202/en/ScaleMP-Announces-Record-Results">ScaleMP and how their announcement of record results</a>, with close to 10,000 customers as of the close of 2018. This led to talk about SMP vs. MPP from a performance standpoint. Henry asserted that a clustered approach will always be superior to a big SMP approach, all things being equal. Dan doesn’t agree and Shahin confesses his love of ‘fat node’ clustering. Dan agrees with Shahin, but wonders why no one is doing it.<br />We also note that Mellanox got a nice design win with the Finns, as they’ll be installing 200 Gb/s HDR InfiniBand interconnect in a <a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190122005283/en/CSC-Finnish-Center-Science-Finnish-Meteorological-Institute">new Finnish supercomputer</a> to be deployed in 2019 and 2020. The interconnect will be used in a Dragonfly topology.<br /><h3>Catch of the Week</h3><ol><li>Shahin’s catch of the week is a mathematical puzzle titled “The most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle.” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw%20)">Here’s a link to the video.</a></li><li>Dan likes a good comeback story and in light of that, his catch of the week is <a href="https://insidehpc.com/2019/01/dell-emc-powers-powers-physics-at-nikhef-with-amd-epyc-servers/">AMD nabbing a design win at Nikhef</a>.</li><li>Henry HAS NO CATCH OF THE WEEK. This makes him the “RF-HPC Villain of the Week” :)</li></ol><em><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode219/RFHPC219_AI-super-SW-SMP.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></em><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><em>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</em></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/f_vAjKdfeRo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noWe start our discussion by contemplating the fact that Shahin doesn’t have a middle name (he says he never needed one) and touching on why Henry has picked up the nick name ‘Gator’ Newman. What's an AI supercomputer?Our first topic is whether a supercompuRich BruecknerWe start our discussion by contemplating the fact that Shahin doesn’t have a middle name (he says he never needed one) and touching on why Henry has picked up the nick name ‘Gator’ Newman. What's an AI supercomputer?Our first topic is whether a supercomputer can or cannot be a “AI Supercomputer.” This is based on France (along with HPE) unveiling a new AI system which will double the capacity of French supercomputing. So what are the differences between a traditional super and a AI super. According to Dan, it mostly comes down to how many GPUs the system is configured with, while Shahin and Henry think it has something to do with the datasets. Send us a note or a tweet if you have an opinion on this. Software SMP hits 10kThe guys also discuss ScaleMP and how their announcement of record results, with close to 10,000 customers as of the close of 2018. This led to talk about SMP vs. MPP from a performance standpoint. Henry asserted that a clustered approach will always be superior to a big SMP approach, all things being equal. Dan doesn’t agree and Shahin confesses his love of ‘fat node’ clustering. Dan agrees with Shahin, but wonders why no one is doing it. We also note that Mellanox got a nice design win with the Finns, as they’ll be installing 200 Gb/s HDR InfiniBand interconnect in a new Finnish supercomputer to be deployed in 2019 and 2020. The interconnect will be used in a Dragonfly topology. Catch of the WeekShahin’s catch of the week is a mathematical puzzle titled “The most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle.” Here’s a link to the video.Dan likes a good comeback story and in light of that, his catch of the week is AMD nabbing a design win at Nikhef.Henry HAS NO CATCH OF THE WEEK. This makes him the “RF-HPC Villain of the Week” :)Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletterhpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2019/02/whats-ai-supercomputer-whats-up-with.htmlChina Exascale Again (Tianhe-3 is coming), GDPR shows its teethhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/LdnJ6qBktSI/china-exascale-again-tianhe-3-is-coming.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Fri, 01 Feb 2019 18:38:07 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-467610138464315950After a short talk about the weather in Henry’s basement (it had just reached 60 F by the time we recorded the show), we got right down to business with an important announcement:&nbsp; our pal Rich Brueckner is leaving the show. He just has too much on his plate and something had to give.<br /><br />While we’re worried about the impact Rich’s departure might have on our listenership, we did take note of and welcome listeners 13, 14, and 15, who made themselves known to Henry on one of his recent business trips. Yay us.<br /><br />Our first topic is China rolling out a successor to Tianhe-1, dubbed Tianhe-3. According to <a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/17/c_137752208.htm">news articles</a>, Tianhe-3 will be 200 times faster than Tianhe-1, with 100x more storage. What we don’t know is if these comparisons are relative to Tianhe-1 or Tianhe 1A. The later machine weighs in at 2.256 PFlop/s which means that Tianhe-3 might be as fast as 450 PFlop/s when complete.<a href="http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/17/c_137752208.htm">&nbsp;</a>We also made a reference to a past episode, which we know you remember vividly, where we discussed&nbsp;<a href="https://insidehpc.com/2018/07/radio-free-hpc-looks-chinas-three-pronged-plan-exascale/">China's three-pronged strategy for exascale</a>.<br /><br />As we’re moving into our popular “Catch of the Week” segment, Shahin hijacks the conversation by questioning if anyone knows the real-world utilization rates of non-commodity configurations in public clouds. This leads to this bold estimate from Dan “I’ll bet that there isn’t a public cloud out there that has a higher than 60-65% utilization rate.” We have a spirited discussion about this pseudo-metric and how infrastructures are sized to handle peaks. We also brought up a story that <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/425740-researchers-malware-adapted-to-dismantle-cloud-security-protections">malware can bring down public clouds</a>, although someone would have to own your system before doing it.<br /><br />Catch of the Week:<br /><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6y0sW-k6P9U/XFT_6-eRseI/AAAAAAAAAAM/H8HyjaOj-Mwg3D1kcjt-A_4blOZAAYbIwCLcBGAs/s1600/RFHPC-catch1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="175" height="200" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6y0sW-k6P9U/XFT_6-eRseI/AAAAAAAAAAM/H8HyjaOj-Mwg3D1kcjt-A_4blOZAAYbIwCLcBGAs/s200/RFHPC-catch1.png" width="134" /></a><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c0dymO5GeGo/XFT_60SIe7I/AAAAAAAAAAQ/hdwUOuxvZHgnZGZKovWUB6KzF3zUGIyXQCLcBGAs/s1600/RFHPC-catch2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="362" height="134" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c0dymO5GeGo/XFT_60SIe7I/AAAAAAAAAAQ/hdwUOuxvZHgnZGZKovWUB6KzF3zUGIyXQCLcBGAs/s200/RFHPC-catch2.png" width="200" /></a> <br /><ol><li>Henry hipped us to a website that shows whether your email address or password have been powned: <a href="https://haveibeenpwned.com/">https://haveibeenpwned.com/</a></li><li>Shahin brought up <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/21/18191591/google-gdpr-fine-50-million-euros-data-consent-cnil">Google’s recent 50 million euro fine</a> for GDPR violations:</li><li>Dan discussed the case of a Dutch surgeon who won a landmark case to get her <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/21/dutch-surgeon-wins-landmark-right-to-be-forgotten-case-google">medical disciplinary records removed from Google searches</a>.</li></ol><br /><em><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode218/RFHPC218_China-Exascale-Tianhe-3.mp3" rel="nofollow">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></em><br /><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><em>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</em></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/LdnJ6qBktSI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noAfter a short talk about the weather in Henry’s basement (it had just reached 60 F by the time we recorded the show), we got right down to business with an important announcement:&nbsp; our pal Rich Brueckner is leaving the show. He just has too much on hRich BruecknerAfter a short talk about the weather in Henry’s basement (it had just reached 60 F by the time we recorded the show), we got right down to business with an important announcement:&nbsp; our pal Rich Brueckner is leaving the show. He just has too much on his plate and something had to give. While we’re worried about the impact Rich’s departure might have on our listenership, we did take note of and welcome listeners 13, 14, and 15, who made themselves known to Henry on one of his recent business trips. Yay us. Our first topic is China rolling out a successor to Tianhe-1, dubbed Tianhe-3. According to news articles, Tianhe-3 will be 200 times faster than Tianhe-1, with 100x more storage. What we don’t know is if these comparisons are relative to Tianhe-1 or Tianhe 1A. The later machine weighs in at 2.256 PFlop/s which means that Tianhe-3 might be as fast as 450 PFlop/s when complete.&nbsp;We also made a reference to a past episode, which we know you remember vividly, where we discussed&nbsp;China's three-pronged strategy for exascale. As we’re moving into our popular “Catch of the Week” segment, Shahin hijacks the conversation by questioning if anyone knows the real-world utilization rates of non-commodity configurations in public clouds. This leads to this bold estimate from Dan “I’ll bet that there isn’t a public cloud out there that has a higher than 60-65% utilization rate.” We have a spirited discussion about this pseudo-metric and how infrastructures are sized to handle peaks. We also brought up a story that malware can bring down public clouds, although someone would have to own your system before doing it. Catch of the Week: Henry hipped us to a website that shows whether your email address or password have been powned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Shahin brought up Google’s recent 50 million euro fine for GDPR violations:Dan discussed the case of a Dutch surgeon who won a landmark case to get her medical disciplinary records removed from Google searches. Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletterhpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2019/02/china-exascale-again-tianhe-3-is-coming.htmlWeather Forecasting Goes Crowdsourcing, Q means Quantumhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/FeaOn-0jBSs/weather-forecasting-goes-crowdsourcing.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Fri, 25 Jan 2019 13:25:12 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-3535079780849306143<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">In this <a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode217/RF-CrowdSourced-Weather.mp3">episode</a> of Radio Free HPC, Dan, Henry, and Shahin start with a spirited discussion of IBM’s recent <a href="https://insidehpc.com/2019/01/ibm-weather-system-to-improve-forecasting-around-the-world/">announcement</a> regarding their crowd sourced weather prediction application. Henry was dubious as to whether Big Blue could get access to the data they need in order to truly put out a valuable product. Dan had questions about the value of the crowd sourced data and how it could be scrubbed in order to be useful. Shahin was pretty favorable towards IBM’s plans and believes that they will solve the problems that Henry and Dan raised.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">IBM came up again in the show as the boys kick around IBM’s <a href="https://insidehpc.com/2019/01/ibm-rolls-out-quantum-computer-for-commercial-use/">quantum computing</a> commercial system. Shahin brought out the point that for a market that has few applications and success stories, it attracted nearly every big vendor in the business.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Catch of the Week:<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Henry told the guys about a new <a href="https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/01/secret-service-theft-rings-turn-to-fuze-cards/">security flaw</a> as pointed out by Krebs, this one concerning an exploit of credit cards.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Shahin talked about the newly proposed <a href="https://www.deep500.org/">Deep500</a> benchmark, designed to compare deep learning and inference performance.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Dan discussed a recent <a href="https://www.axios.com/artificial-intelligence-automation-jobs-robots-fbca4208-ffea-43c4-9bd3-8102b63caedb.html">interview</a> with a VC who believed that by 2035, more than 40% of jobs world wide would be taken over by AI. This prompted a discussion of how technology has impacted employment and the economy in the past and how the accelerating pace of economic displacement in the era of AI is much quicker than in any other time. &nbsp;</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">We end the episode by denouncing attorneys.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><br /></div></h3><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-389167790777085005" itemprop="description articleBody" style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.199999809265137px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><i><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode217/RF-CrowdSourced-Weather.mp3" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">RSS Feed</a></i><br /><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;"><i>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</i></a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/FeaOn-0jBSs" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noIn this episode of Radio Free HPC, Dan, Henry, and Shahin start with a spirited discussion of IBM’s recent announcement regarding their crowd sourced weather prediction application. Henry was dubious as to whether Big Blue could get access to the data theRich BruecknerIn this episode of Radio Free HPC, Dan, Henry, and Shahin start with a spirited discussion of IBM’s recent announcement regarding their crowd sourced weather prediction application. Henry was dubious as to whether Big Blue could get access to the data they need in order to truly put out a valuable product. Dan had questions about the value of the crowd sourced data and how it could be scrubbed in order to be useful. Shahin was pretty favorable towards IBM’s plans and believes that they will solve the problems that Henry and Dan raised. IBM came up again in the show as the boys kick around IBM’s quantum computing commercial system. Shahin brought out the point that for a market that has few applications and success stories, it attracted nearly every big vendor in the business.&nbsp; Catch of the Week: Henry told the guys about a new security flaw as pointed out by Krebs, this one concerning an exploit of credit cards. Shahin talked about the newly proposed Deep500 benchmark, designed to compare deep learning and inference performance. Dan discussed a recent interview with a VC who believed that by 2035, more than 40% of jobs world wide would be taken over by AI. This prompted a discussion of how technology has impacted employment and the economy in the past and how the accelerating pace of economic displacement in the era of AI is much quicker than in any other time. &nbsp; We end the episode by denouncing attorneys. Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletterhpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2019/01/weather-forecasting-goes-crowdsourcing.htmlA Look Back at the 2018 CHPC Conference in South Africahttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/p3720XsfkWI/a-look-back-at-2018-chpc-conference-in.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Mon, 31 Dec 2018 07:26:18 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-389167790777085005In this <a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode216/RF-HPCCHPCconference2018.mp3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">podcast</a>, the Radio Free HPC team looks back at the highlights of the 2018 CHPC Conference in South Africa. With over 500 attendees, the event featured a set of keynotes on high performance computing as well as a Student Cluster Challenge and a Cyber Security Competition.<br /><br />The comprehensive program included national and international contributions as well as contributions from cyberinfrastructure system partners: the South African National Research Network and the Data Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa. Captains of the HPC Industry across the globe provided key talks and workshops during the conference week and they included: Patricia Damkrogel, Vice President and General Manager of Intel,&nbsp;<a href="http://chpcconf.co.za/files/2018/Sterling_bio.pdf">Thomas Sterling</a>&nbsp;from Indiana University, USA;&nbsp;<a href="http://chpcconf.co.za/files/2018/Foley-Bio-Photo.pdf">Michael Foley</a>&nbsp;who has recently retired from the World Bank,&nbsp;<a href="http://chpcconf.co.za/files/2018/Twala-Bio-Photo.pdf">Bhekisipho Twala</a>&nbsp;from the University of South Africa,&nbsp;<a href="http://chpcconf.co.za/files/2018/Ngoasheng-Bio-Photo.pdf">Khutso &nbsp;Ngoasheng</a>&nbsp;from the South African &nbsp;Radio Astronomy Observatory,&nbsp;<a href="http://chpcconf.co.za/files/2018/Biermann-Bio-Photo.pdf">Elmarie Biermann&nbsp;</a>from the Cyber Security Institute and many others.<br /><blockquote>This year, following the theme of the conference on how <i>HPC Transforms for the Future</i>, increasing the participation of women in HPC was prominent. This was supported by the introduction of a sponsorship for an outstanding female in the Student Cluster Challenge. The award in this newly introduced category, sponsored by Intel, was taken by Ms. Mapule Madzena, a student from the University of the Free State. She was hailed as the best female student and walked away with R64 500.</blockquote><i><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode216/RF-HPCCHPCconference2018.mp3">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></i><br /><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><i>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</i></a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/p3720XsfkWI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks back at the highlights of the 2018 CHPC Conference in South Africa. With over 500 attendees, the event featured a set of keynotes on high performance computing as well as a Student Cluster Challenge and a CybRich BruecknerIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks back at the highlights of the 2018 CHPC Conference in South Africa. With over 500 attendees, the event featured a set of keynotes on high performance computing as well as a Student Cluster Challenge and a Cyber Security Competition. The comprehensive program included national and international contributions as well as contributions from cyberinfrastructure system partners: the South African National Research Network and the Data Intensive Research Initiative of South Africa. Captains of the HPC Industry across the globe provided key talks and workshops during the conference week and they included: Patricia Damkrogel, Vice President and General Manager of Intel,&nbsp;Thomas Sterling&nbsp;from Indiana University, USA;&nbsp;Michael Foley&nbsp;who has recently retired from the World Bank,&nbsp;Bhekisipho Twala&nbsp;from the University of South Africa,&nbsp;Khutso &nbsp;Ngoasheng&nbsp;from the South African &nbsp;Radio Astronomy Observatory,&nbsp;Elmarie Biermann&nbsp;from the Cyber Security Institute and many others. This year, following the theme of the conference on how HPC Transforms for the Future, increasing the participation of women in HPC was prominent. This was supported by the introduction of a sponsorship for an outstanding female in the Student Cluster Challenge. The award in this newly introduced category, sponsored by Intel, was taken by Ms. Mapule Madzena, a student from the University of the Free State. She was hailed as the best female student and walked away with R64 500.Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletterhpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-look-back-at-2018-chpc-conference-in.htmlA Hard Look at Santa's Big Data Requirementshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/PZJOjqpu8Zo/a-hard-look-at-santas-big-data.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Fri, 28 Dec 2018 10:21:45 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-5066811338269222615<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GJIlyf-RGeY" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><br /><br />[caption id="attachment_67821" align="alignright" width="300"]<a href="https://insidehpc.com/2017/11/live-radio-free-hpc-latest-top500-list/rfhpc-3/" rel="attachment wp-att-67821"><img class="size-medium wp-image-67821" src="https://insidehpc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/rfhpc-300x241.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="241" /></a> <em>From left, Henry Newman, Dan Olds, Shahin Khan, and Rich Brueckner are the Radio Free HPC team</em>[/caption]<br /><br />In this podcast video, the <a href="http://radiofreehpc.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Radio Free HPC</a> team looks at the monumental IT challenges that Santa faces each Holiday Season.<br /><blockquote>With nearly <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.0014.TO" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" data-wpel-link="external">2 billion</a> children to serve, Santa’s operations are an IT challenge on the grandest scale. If the world’s population keeps growing by 83 million people per year, Santa may need to build a hybrid cloud just to keep up. With billions of simultaneous queries, the Big Data analytics required will certainly require an 8-socket numa machines with 4 terabytes of central memory.</blockquote><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><em>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</em></a><br /><br /><a href="https://insidehpc.com/2018/12/radio-free-hpc-looks-santas-big-data-challenges/santa2/" rel="attachment wp-att-75134"><img class="alignright wp-image-75134" src="https://insidehpc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/santa2.png" alt="" width="549" height="677" /></a><br /><br /><em><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode215/RFHPC215SantaData.mp3">Download the MP3</a> * <a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a> * <a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></em><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/PZJOjqpu8Zo" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0no [caption id="attachment_67821" align="alignright" width="300"] From left, Henry Newman, Dan Olds, Shahin Khan, and Rich Brueckner are the Radio Free HPC team[/caption] In this podcast video, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the monumental IT challenges tRich Brueckner [caption id="attachment_67821" align="alignright" width="300"] From left, Henry Newman, Dan Olds, Shahin Khan, and Rich Brueckner are the Radio Free HPC team[/caption] In this podcast video, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the monumental IT challenges that Santa faces each Holiday Season. With nearly 2 billion children to serve, Santa’s operations are an IT challenge on the grandest scale. If the world’s population keeps growing by 83 million people per year, Santa may need to build a hybrid cloud just to keep up. With billions of simultaneous queries, the Big Data analytics required will certainly require an 8-socket numa machines with 4 terabytes of central memory.Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * RSS Feedhpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2018/12/a-hard-look-at-santas-big-data.htmlLooking at TOP500 Trends for Exascale at SC18http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/HQLI8uV5HPI/looking-at-top500-trends-for-exascale.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Mon, 26 Nov 2018 06:29:29 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-4510855712132887632In this <a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode214/RFHPC214SC18Dongarra.mp3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">podcast</a>, the&nbsp;Radio Free HPC&nbsp;team looks at the semi-annual TOP500 BoF presentation by Jack Dongarra.<br /><blockquote>The TOP500 list of supercomputers serves as a “Who’s Who” in the field of High Performance Computing (HPC). It started as a list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world and has evolved to a major source of information about trends in HPC. The 52nd TOP500 list will be published in November 2018 just in time for SC18.&nbsp;This BoF will present detailed analyses of the TOP500 and discuss the changes in the HPC marketplace during the past years. The BoF is meant as an open forum for discussion and feedback between the TOP500 authors and the user community.</blockquote>After that, we do our <i>Catch of the Week</i>.<br /><br /><a href="https://insidehpc.com/tag/sc18/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><i>See our complete coverage of SC18</i></a><br /><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><i>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</i></a><br /><br /><i><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode214/RFHPC214SC18Dongarra.mp3">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></i><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/HQLI8uV5HPI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noIn this podcast, the&nbsp;Radio Free HPC&nbsp;team looks at the semi-annual TOP500 BoF presentation by Jack Dongarra. The TOP500 list of supercomputers serves as a “Who’s Who” in the field of High Performance Computing (HPC). It started as a list of the mRich BruecknerIn this podcast, the&nbsp;Radio Free HPC&nbsp;team looks at the semi-annual TOP500 BoF presentation by Jack Dongarra. The TOP500 list of supercomputers serves as a “Who’s Who” in the field of High Performance Computing (HPC). It started as a list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world and has evolved to a major source of information about trends in HPC. The 52nd TOP500 list will be published in November 2018 just in time for SC18.&nbsp;This BoF will present detailed analyses of the TOP500 and discuss the changes in the HPC marketplace during the past years. The BoF is meant as an open forum for discussion and feedback between the TOP500 authors and the user community.After that, we do our Catch of the Week. See our complete coverage of SC18 Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feedhpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2018/11/looking-at-top500-trends-for-exascale.htmlRunning Down the TOP500 at SC18http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/oM4E5b73lQQ/running-down-top500-at-sc18.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:15:36 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-1217073680142183378In this <a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode213/RFHPC113SC18Top500.mp3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">podcast</a>, the <i><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/">Radio Free HPC</a></i> team looks back on the highlights of SC18 and the newest TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers.<br /><br />[caption id="attachment_71623" align="alignright" width="300"] <i>Buddy Bland shows off Summit, the world's fastest supercomputer at ORNL.</i>[/caption]<br /><br />The latest <a href="http://top500.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">TOP500</a> list of the world's fastest supercomputers is out, a remarkable ranking that shows five Department of Energy supercomputers in the top 10, with the first two captured by <a href="https://insidehpc.com/2018/08/red-hat-powers-1-summit-supercomputer/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Summit</a> at Oak Ridge and <a href="https://insidehpc.com/2018/10/llnl-unveils-nnsas-sierra-worlds-third-fastest-supercomputer/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sierra</a> at Livermore. With the number one and number two systems on the planet, the "Rebel Alliance" vendors of IBM, Mellanox, and NVIDIA stand far and tall above the others.<br /><blockquote>Summit widened its lead as the number one system, improving its High Performance Linpack (HPL) performance from 122.3 to 143.5 petaflops since its debut on the previous list in June 2018. Sierra also added to its HPL result from six months ago, going from 71.6 to 94.6 petaflops, enough to bump it from the number three position to number two. Both are IBM-built supercomputers, powered by Power9 CPUs and NVIDIA V100 GPUs.</blockquote><a href="http://top500.org/" rel="attachment noopener wp-att-74316" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-74316" height="657" src="https://insidehpc.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/top500.png" width="550" /></a><br /><br />At number five is Piz Daint, a Cray XC50 system installed at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano, Switzerland. At 21.2 petaflops, it maintains its standing as the most powerful system in Europe. It is powered by a combinations of Intel Xeon processors and NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs<br /><blockquote>Trinity, a Cray XC40 system operated by Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories improved its performance to 20.2 petaflops, enough to move it up one position to the number six spot. It uses Intel Xeon Phi processors, the only top ten system to do so.</blockquote><a href="https://insidehpc.com/tag/sc18/" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><i>See our complete coverage of SC18</i></a><br /><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><i>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</i></a><br /><br /><i><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode213/RFHPC113SC18Top500.mp3">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></i><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/oM4E5b73lQQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks back on the highlights of SC18 and the newest TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. [caption id="attachment_71623" align="alignright" width="300"] Buddy Bland shows off Summit, the world's fastesRich BruecknerIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks back on the highlights of SC18 and the newest TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. [caption id="attachment_71623" align="alignright" width="300"] Buddy Bland shows off Summit, the world's fastest supercomputer at ORNL.[/caption] The latest TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers is out, a remarkable ranking that shows five Department of Energy supercomputers in the top 10, with the first two captured by Summit at Oak Ridge and Sierra at Livermore. With the number one and number two systems on the planet, the "Rebel Alliance" vendors of IBM, Mellanox, and NVIDIA stand far and tall above the others. Summit widened its lead as the number one system, improving its High Performance Linpack (HPL) performance from 122.3 to 143.5 petaflops since its debut on the previous list in June 2018. Sierra also added to its HPL result from six months ago, going from 71.6 to 94.6 petaflops, enough to bump it from the number three position to number two. Both are IBM-built supercomputers, powered by Power9 CPUs and NVIDIA V100 GPUs. At number five is Piz Daint, a Cray XC50 system installed at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano, Switzerland. At 21.2 petaflops, it maintains its standing as the most powerful system in Europe. It is powered by a combinations of Intel Xeon processors and NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs Trinity, a Cray XC40 system operated by Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories improved its performance to 20.2 petaflops, enough to move it up one position to the number six spot. It uses Intel Xeon Phi processors, the only top ten system to do so.See our complete coverage of SC18 Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feedhpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2018/11/running-down-top500-at-sc18.htmlA Look at the Spaceborne Supercomputer One Year Laterhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/1OM_zecMCts/a-look-at-spaceborne-supercomputer-one.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Tue, 06 Nov 2018 07:12:31 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-6752735151008027893In this <a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode212/RFHPC212SpaceborneComputer.mp3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">podcast</a>, the Radio Free HPC team sits down with Mark Fernandez from HPE to discuss the <a href="https://insidehpc.com/2018/11/hpe-delivers-first-cloud-supercomputing-services-astronauts/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Spaceborne Supercomputer</a> that it currently orbiting the planet in the International Space Station.<br /><br />Last week, <a href="https://www.hpe.com/us/en/home.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">HPE</a>&nbsp;announced it is opening high-performance computing capabilities to astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) as part of its continued experiments on the&nbsp;<a href="https://news.hpe.com/hewlett-packard-enterprise-sends-supercomputer-into-space-to-accelerate-mission-to-mars/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Spaceborne Computer</a>&nbsp;project.<br /><br />Spaceborne Computer is the first commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) supercomputer that HPE and NASA launched into space for a&nbsp;<a href="https://news.hpe.com/spaceborne-computer-still-flying-high-one-year-later/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">one-year experiment</a>&nbsp;to test resiliency and performance, achieving one teraFLOP (a trillion floating point operations per second) and successfully operating on the International Space Station (ISS).&nbsp; After completing its one-year mission proving it can withstand harsh conditions of space – such as zero gravity, unscheduled power outages, and unpredictable levels of radiation – Spaceborne Computer will now, for the first time ever, open its supercomputing capabilities for use aboard the ISS. These “above-the-cloud” services will allow space explorers and experimenters to run analyses directly in space instead of transmitting data to and from Earth for insight.<br /><br />After that, we do our Catch of the Week.<br /><br /><i><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode212/RFHPC212SpaceborneComputer.mp3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></i><br /><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><i>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</i></a>.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/1OM_zecMCts" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team sits down with Mark Fernandez from HPE to discuss the Spaceborne Supercomputer that it currently orbiting the planet in the International Space Station. Last week, HPE&nbsp;announced it is opening high-performance Rich BruecknerIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team sits down with Mark Fernandez from HPE to discuss the Spaceborne Supercomputer that it currently orbiting the planet in the International Space Station. Last week, HPE&nbsp;announced it is opening high-performance computing capabilities to astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) as part of its continued experiments on the&nbsp;Spaceborne Computer&nbsp;project. Spaceborne Computer is the first commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) supercomputer that HPE and NASA launched into space for a&nbsp;one-year experiment&nbsp;to test resiliency and performance, achieving one teraFLOP (a trillion floating point operations per second) and successfully operating on the International Space Station (ISS).&nbsp; After completing its one-year mission proving it can withstand harsh conditions of space – such as zero gravity, unscheduled power outages, and unpredictable levels of radiation – Spaceborne Computer will now, for the first time ever, open its supercomputing capabilities for use aboard the ISS. These “above-the-cloud” services will allow space explorers and experimenters to run analyses directly in space instead of transmitting data to and from Earth for insight. After that, we do our Catch of the Week. Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter.hpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-look-at-spaceborne-supercomputer-one.htmlA Preview of the SC18 Student Cluster Competitionhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/tt-azuEz6Hg/a-preview-of-sc18-student-cluster.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:12:37 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-1361904250480313622In this podcast, Radio Free HPC Previews the <a href="https://sc18.supercomputing.org/experience/studentssc/student-cluster-competition/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">SC18 Student Cluster Competition</a>.<br /><blockquote>The Student Cluster Competition was developed in 2007 to provide an immersive high performance computing experience to undergraduate and high school students. With sponsorship from hardware and software vendor partners, student teams design and build small clusters, learn designated scientific applications, apply optimization techniques for their chosen architectures, and compete in a non-stop, 48-hour challenge at the SC conference to complete a real-world scientific workload, showing off their HPC knowledge for conference attendees and judges. Teams are composed of six students, at least one advisor, and vendor partners. The advisor provides guidance and recommendations, the vendor provides the resources (hardware and software) and the students provide the skill and enthusiasm. Students work with their advisors to craft a proposal that describes the team, the suggested hardware, and their approach to the competition. The SCC committee reviews each proposal and provides comments for all submissions receiv<b></b>ed before the deadline."</blockquote><i><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode211/RFHPC211StudentCluster.mp3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></i><br /><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><i>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</i></a>.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/tt-azuEz6Hg" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noIn this podcast, Radio Free HPC Previews the SC18 Student Cluster Competition. The Student Cluster Competition was developed in 2007 to provide an immersive high performance computing experience to undergraduate and high school students. With sponsorship Rich BruecknerIn this podcast, Radio Free HPC Previews the SC18 Student Cluster Competition. The Student Cluster Competition was developed in 2007 to provide an immersive high performance computing experience to undergraduate and high school students. With sponsorship from hardware and software vendor partners, student teams design and build small clusters, learn designated scientific applications, apply optimization techniques for their chosen architectures, and compete in a non-stop, 48-hour challenge at the SC conference to complete a real-world scientific workload, showing off their HPC knowledge for conference attendees and judges. Teams are composed of six students, at least one advisor, and vendor partners. The advisor provides guidance and recommendations, the vendor provides the resources (hardware and software) and the students provide the skill and enthusiasm. Students work with their advisors to craft a proposal that describes the team, the suggested hardware, and their approach to the competition. The SCC committee reviews each proposal and provides comments for all submissions received before the deadline."Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter.hpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-preview-of-sc18-student-cluster.htmlA Look at IDC's Growing Server Market Numbershttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/IawAFLMq560/a-look-at-idcs-growing-server-market.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Mon, 22 Oct 2018 10:32:22 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-1066829739184984376In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the l<a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/07/server_shipments_soar_with_dell_dominant/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">atest server market numbers</a> from IDC. The takeaway? The Server industry up 43 percent year over year. Component prices have gone up, so there may be multiple contributing factors implying richer configurations are being deployed. Dan thinks IDC might be adjusting their model, but we can't be sure from here. He doesn't see how a company like Inspur can jack their business by 112 percent in a single year. This is simply unprecedented growth. Welcome to the Server Business in the Age of Cloud.<br /><blockquote>Rich notes that Intel's terrific earnings recently were a bellwether for this "bullish" server market. As an interesting data point, something like 50 percent of all Intel chips made worldwide today are custom chips going to the hyperscale cloud market. Apparently, the Googles of the World don't want the off-the-shelf parts. And since they buy in such high volume, Intel is reaping big rewards.</blockquote>After that, we do our <i>Catch of the Week.</i><br /><br /><i><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode207/RFHPC207IDCServerWatch.mp3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></i><br /><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><i>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</i></a>.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/IawAFLMq560" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the latest server market numbers from IDC. The takeaway? The Server industry up 43 percent year over year. Component prices have gone up, so there may be multiple contributing factors implying richer confiRich BruecknerIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the latest server market numbers from IDC. The takeaway? The Server industry up 43 percent year over year. Component prices have gone up, so there may be multiple contributing factors implying richer configurations are being deployed. Dan thinks IDC might be adjusting their model, but we can't be sure from here. He doesn't see how a company like Inspur can jack their business by 112 percent in a single year. This is simply unprecedented growth. Welcome to the Server Business in the Age of Cloud. Rich notes that Intel's terrific earnings recently were a bellwether for this "bullish" server market. As an interesting data point, something like 50 percent of all Intel chips made worldwide today are custom chips going to the hyperscale cloud market. Apparently, the Googles of the World don't want the off-the-shelf parts. And since they buy in such high volume, Intel is reaping big rewards.After that, we do our Catch of the Week. Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter.hpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-look-at-idcs-growing-server-market.htmlBrent Gorda on his new Role as HPC Lead for ARMhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/DYS2cSZN96A/brent-gorda-on-his-new-role-as-hpc-lead.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Mon, 22 Oct 2018 10:31:01 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-4626515294229004880In this <a href="http://www.radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode208/RFHPC208BrentGordaARM.mp3" target="_blank">podcast</a>, the <i><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/">Radio Free HPC</a></i> team catches up with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bgorda/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Brent Gorda</a> to discuss the future of ARM in HPC.<br /><blockquote>Brent Gorda leads the HPC business for Arm. Prior to this recent role, he spent a year consulting (HPC/Quantum/AI) and advising startup CEO's in Silicon Valley. Earlier in his career, he founded Whamcloud, which he sold to Intel and served as the General Manager for Intel’s High Performance Data Division. Brent has also served on many advisory boards (SCxy, Cray Research, Westera) and founded the Student Cluster Competition, a world-wide event affecting the careers of thousands of undergraduates each year.</blockquote>After that, we do our <i>Catch of the Week.</i><br /><br /><i><a href="http://www.radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode208/RFHPC208BrentGordaARM.mp3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></i><br /><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><i>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</i></a>.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/DYS2cSZN96A" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team catches up with Brent Gorda to discuss the future of ARM in HPC. Brent Gorda leads the HPC business for Arm. Prior to this recent role, he spent a year consulting (HPC/Quantum/AI) and advising startup CEO's in SiliRich BruecknerIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team catches up with Brent Gorda to discuss the future of ARM in HPC. Brent Gorda leads the HPC business for Arm. Prior to this recent role, he spent a year consulting (HPC/Quantum/AI) and advising startup CEO's in Silicon Valley. Earlier in his career, he founded Whamcloud, which he sold to Intel and served as the General Manager for Intel’s High Performance Data Division. Brent has also served on many advisory boards (SCxy, Cray Research, Westera) and founded the Student Cluster Competition, a world-wide event affecting the careers of thousands of undergraduates each year.After that, we do our Catch of the Week. Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter.hpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2018/10/brent-gorda-on-his-new-role-as-hpc-lead.htmlA Look at Remarkable Growth in the HPC Server Markethttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/_iDUAYBGzLk/a-look-at-remarkable-growth-in-hpc.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Mon, 22 Oct 2018 10:19:30 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-2651940624495996082In this podcast, the <i><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/">Radio Free HPC</a></i> team looks at <a href="https://insidehpc.com/2018/09/hpc-server-market-jumps-27-6-2q-2018/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">remarkable growth in the HPC Server Market</a> reported by <a href="https://hyperionresearch.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Hyperion Research.</a><div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_54673"><br /></div>Hyperion Research reports that worldwide factory revenue for the high-performance computing (HPC) technical server market jumped 27.6% to $3.7 billion in the second quarter of 2018 (2Q18), up from $2.9 billion in the same period of 2017, according to the newly released Hyperion Research Worldwide High-Performance Technical Server QView. Sequentially, second-quarter 2018 HPC server revenue grew 16.7% over the $3.2 billion figure in the first quarter of 2018.<br /><br />Revenue in the first half of calendar year 2018 rose 23.8% over the 2017 first half, from $5.6 billion to $6.9 billion. Hyperion Research forecasts that revenue for HPC server systems will reach about $12.9 billion in full-year 2018 and will grow to $19.6 billion in 2022.<br /><ul></ul>According to Steve Conway, Hyperion Research senior vice president of research, “Revenue in the second quarter also benefited from HPC’s crucial role at the forefront of R&amp;D for emerging, economically important artificial intelligence uses such as self-driving vehicles, precision medicine, smart cities and the Internet of Things.”<br /><br />After that, we do our Catch of the Week.<br /><br /><i><a href="http://www.radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode209/RFHPC210HyperionServerReport.mp3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></i><br /><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><i>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</i></a>.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/_iDUAYBGzLk" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at remarkable growth in the HPC Server Market reported by Hyperion Research. Hyperion Research reports that worldwide factory revenue for the high-performance computing (HPC) technical server market jumped 27Rich BruecknerIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at remarkable growth in the HPC Server Market reported by Hyperion Research. Hyperion Research reports that worldwide factory revenue for the high-performance computing (HPC) technical server market jumped 27.6% to $3.7 billion in the second quarter of 2018 (2Q18), up from $2.9 billion in the same period of 2017, according to the newly released Hyperion Research Worldwide High-Performance Technical Server QView. Sequentially, second-quarter 2018 HPC server revenue grew 16.7% over the $3.2 billion figure in the first quarter of 2018. Revenue in the first half of calendar year 2018 rose 23.8% over the 2017 first half, from $5.6 billion to $6.9 billion. Hyperion Research forecasts that revenue for HPC server systems will reach about $12.9 billion in full-year 2018 and will grow to $19.6 billion in 2022. According to Steve Conway, Hyperion Research senior vice president of research, “Revenue in the second quarter also benefited from HPC’s crucial role at the forefront of R&amp;D for emerging, economically important artificial intelligence uses such as self-driving vehicles, precision medicine, smart cities and the Internet of Things.” After that, we do our Catch of the Week. Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter.hpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-look-at-remarkable-growth-in-hpc.htmlSC18 Event Previewhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/mlNuxZ-_QMs/sc18-event-preview.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Mon, 22 Oct 2018 10:09:10 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-2622509545016270709In this <a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode210/RFHPC210SC18preview.mp3" target="_blank">podcast</a>, the <a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/wp/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Radio Free HPC</a> team looks ahead to preview <a href="https://sc18.supercomputing.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">SC18</a> in Dallas. The conference takes place <b>Nov. 11 - 16</b>.<br /><blockquote><a href="http://sc15.supercomputing.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">SC18</a> in Dallas is world’s largest gathering of HPC professionals, and the smart money is on the organizations that leverage the show for their own gatherings, meetups, special booth sessions, and user groups. Here is a roundup of&nbsp;special events&nbsp;not to miss.</blockquote><b>Ancillary Events at SC18:</b><br /><ul><li><b><a href="http://www.hp-cast.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">HP-CAST</a></b>&nbsp;is the HPE Enterprise user group meeting that kicks things off in&nbsp;Dallas on <b>Nov. 9-10</b>, prior to SC18.</li><li><b><a href="https://www.inteleventexpress.com/One-Intel-Station/welcome.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Intel HPC Forum</a></b> at the Omni in Dallas on <b>Nov. 11</b>. The event is free of charge and features a keynote by Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee.</li><li><a href="https://www.dellhpc.org/november-2018.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><b>Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting</b></a> goes from 8:00 am - 2:00 pm at the Fairmont Dallas on <b>Nov. 12</b>.</li><li><b><a href="https://www.ddn.com/company/events/user-group-sc/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">DDN User Group Meeting</a></b> at the&nbsp;Old Red Museum of Dallas County History &amp; Culture from 1:00 pm - 6:00pm on&nbsp;<b>Nov. 12</b>.</li><li><a href="https://insidehpc.com/events-calendar/?event_id1=333"><b>Hyperion Research Breakfast Briefing</b></a> at SC18 takes place at the<a href="https://insidehpc.com/events-calendar/?event_id1=333"> Adolphus Hotel at 7:15 am - 9:00 am on <b>Tuesday, Nov. 13</b>. Breakfast will be served at 6:45 am.</a></li><li><b><a href="http://univa.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Univa</a></b> will host a <a href="https://www.univa.com/resources/sc18-lunch-learn.php" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Lunch &amp; Learn</a> session from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm on <b>Nov. 14</b>&nbsp;at the Westin in Dallas.</li><li><b><a href="http://www.mellanox.com/sc18/event.php" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Mellanox SC18 Evening Event</a></b>&nbsp;on <b>Wednesday, Nov. 14</b>. Entertainment will be provided SUPER mentalist in the world Lior&nbsp;Suchard in his amazing show followed by a gala dinner.</li></ul><i>Does your company have special events planned for SC18? Let us know at news @ insidehpc.com and we will add it to this post.</i><br /><br /><i><a href="https://insidehpc.com/tag/sc18/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">See our complete coverage of SC18</a></i><br /><br /><i><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode210/RFHPC210SC18preview.mp3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></i><br /><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><i>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</i></a>.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/mlNuxZ-_QMs" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks ahead to preview SC18 in Dallas. The conference takes place Nov. 11 - 16. SC18 in Dallas is world’s largest gathering of HPC professionals, and the smart money is on the organizations that leverage the show fRich BruecknerIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks ahead to preview SC18 in Dallas. The conference takes place Nov. 11 - 16. SC18 in Dallas is world’s largest gathering of HPC professionals, and the smart money is on the organizations that leverage the show for their own gatherings, meetups, special booth sessions, and user groups. Here is a roundup of&nbsp;special events&nbsp;not to miss.Ancillary Events at SC18: HP-CAST&nbsp;is the HPE Enterprise user group meeting that kicks things off in&nbsp;Dallas on Nov. 9-10, prior to SC18.Intel HPC Forum at the Omni in Dallas on Nov. 11. The event is free of charge and features a keynote by Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee.Dell EMC HPC Community Meeting goes from 8:00 am - 2:00 pm at the Fairmont Dallas on Nov. 12.DDN User Group Meeting at the&nbsp;Old Red Museum of Dallas County History &amp; Culture from 1:00 pm - 6:00pm on&nbsp;Nov. 12.Hyperion Research Breakfast Briefing at SC18 takes place at the Adolphus Hotel at 7:15 am - 9:00 am on Tuesday, Nov. 13. Breakfast will be served at 6:45 am.Univa will host a Lunch &amp; Learn session from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm on Nov. 14&nbsp;at the Westin in Dallas.Mellanox SC18 Evening Event&nbsp;on Wednesday, Nov. 14. Entertainment will be provided SUPER mentalist in the world Lior&nbsp;Suchard in his amazing show followed by a gala dinner.Does your company have special events planned for SC18? Let us know at news @ insidehpc.com and we will add it to this post. See our complete coverage of SC18 Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter.hpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2018/10/sc18-event-preview.htmlRadio Free HPC Looks at the Frightening Notpetya Cyber Attackhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/yjmUV0jqZUI/radio-free-hpc-looks-at-frightening.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Wed, 05 Sep 2018 08:51:13 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-2413485322166244859<span style="font-weight: 300;">In this <a href="http://www.radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode206/RFHPC206NotpetyaAttack.mp3" target="_blank">podcast</a>, the </span>Radio Free HPC<span style="font-weight: 300;"> team looks at one of the most massive hacks ever, the </span><a href="http://fortune.com/2018/02/16/russia-notpetya-cyberattack-damage/" rel="noopener" style="font-weight: 300;" target="_blank">Notpetya cyber attack</a><span style="font-weight: 300;"> on shipping company Maersk and their partners.</span><br /><blockquote>This story, featured in Wired magazine, should send chills down the spines of anyone out there who isn’t religiously updating their machines. In other news, Dan is in Australia for the week at the HPC-AI Advisory Council annual Perth meeting, in his catch of the week, he discusses how one of the companies at the conference has made extensive use of IBM’s Watson and is seeing great benefits. Shahin brings up a new camera with almost unimaginable image specs, while Henry get his two cents in on everything else.”</blockquote><i><a href="http://www.radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode206/RFHPC206NotpetyaAttack.mp3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></i><br /><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><i>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</i></a>.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/yjmUV0jqZUI" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at one of the most massive hacks ever, the Notpetya cyber attack on shipping company Maersk and their partners. This story, featured in Wired magazine, should send chills down the spines of anyone out there wRich BruecknerIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at one of the most massive hacks ever, the Notpetya cyber attack on shipping company Maersk and their partners. This story, featured in Wired magazine, should send chills down the spines of anyone out there who isn’t religiously updating their machines. In other news, Dan is in Australia for the week at the HPC-AI Advisory Council annual Perth meeting, in his catch of the week, he discusses how one of the companies at the conference has made extensive use of IBM’s Watson and is seeing great benefits. Shahin brings up a new camera with almost unimaginable image specs, while Henry get his two cents in on everything else.”Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter.hpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2018/09/radio-free-hpc-looks-at-frightening.htmlA Look at the new Eagle Supercomputer at NRELhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/Y_59Z4jvNuY/a-look-at-new-eagle-supercomputer-at.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Mon, 20 Aug 2018 06:57:15 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-9037616325510189683In this <a href="http://www.radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode204/RFHPC204NREL.mp3" target="_blank">podcast</a>, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the new Eagle supercomputing under construction at NREL.<br /><br />The new machine from HPE will run more detailed models that simulate complex processes, systems, and phenomena to advance early research and development on energy technologies across fields including vehicle, wind power, and data sciences.<br /><blockquote>We are strongly committed to architecting technologies to power the next wave of supercomputing and are creating advanced HPC systems while scaling energy efficiency in data centers, to get us there,” said Bill Mannel, vice president and general manager, HPC and AI Group, HPE. “Through Eagle and our overall ongoing collaboration with the U.S. DOE and NREL, we are advancing research to bolster innovation in energy and sustainability.”</blockquote>After that, we do our Catch of the Week.<br /><ul></ul><i><a href="http://www.radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode204/RFHPC204NREL.mp3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></i><br /><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><i>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</i></a>.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/Y_59Z4jvNuY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the new Eagle supercomputing under construction at NREL. The new machine from HPE will run more detailed models that simulate complex processes, systems, and phenomena to advance early research and developRich BruecknerIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the new Eagle supercomputing under construction at NREL. The new machine from HPE will run more detailed models that simulate complex processes, systems, and phenomena to advance early research and development on energy technologies across fields including vehicle, wind power, and data sciences. We are strongly committed to architecting technologies to power the next wave of supercomputing and are creating advanced HPC systems while scaling energy efficiency in data centers, to get us there,” said Bill Mannel, vice president and general manager, HPC and AI Group, HPE. “Through Eagle and our overall ongoing collaboration with the U.S. DOE and NREL, we are advancing research to bolster innovation in energy and sustainability.”After that, we do our Catch of the Week. Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter.hpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-look-at-new-eagle-supercomputer-at.htmlA Look at China' new Exascale Prototypeshttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~3/fh0YxYJvOhc/a-look-at-china-new-exascale-prototypes.htmlrich@insidehpc.com (Rich Brueckner)Mon, 13 Aug 2018 08:29:21 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3039800260993524701.post-8472385035724877298In this <a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode203/RFHPC203ChinaExascalePrototypes.mp3" target="_blank">podcast</a>, the <i>Radio Free HPC&nbsp;</i>team looks at China's new ARM-based Exascale supercomputer prototype.<br /><br />As reported in China Daily, scientists have put an exascale computing prototype into operation that does not run the x86 instruction set. The Sunway exascale computer prototype was developed by the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology (NRCPC),&nbsp;the team that developed <a href="https://www.top500.org/system/178764" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sunway TaihuLight</a>, crowned the world's fastest computer two years in a row in 2016 and 2017.<br /><blockquote>The Sunway exascale computer prototype is very much like a concept car that can run on road,"said Yang Meihong, director of the National Supercomputing Center in Jinan. "We expect to build the exascale computer in the second half of 2020 or the first half of 2021," said Yang.</blockquote>Another prototype exascale supercomputer Tianhe-3 passed the acceptance tests on July 22. Its final version is expected to come out in 2020. The two prototypes marked a further step towards China's successful development of the next-generation supercomputer.<br /><br />After that, we do our <i>Catch of the Week</i>:<br /><ul><li><b>Rich</b> points us to the story about&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rigetti.com/about" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Rigetti Computing's</a> pending&nbsp;128-qubit quantum computer. The company has already built the 128-qubit processing chip, and is working to put all the pieces together to bring more power to researchers and developers. If successful, it could be the world’s most powerful quantum computer and it could have the chance to outpace traditional supercomputers. Meanwhile, you can already access IBMQ, D-Wave, and Chinese quantum machines in the cloud today.</li><li><b>Henry</b> notes that one of the scary things to come out of the Black Hat conference is a <a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/10/satellite_communications_microwave_oven_hacking/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">new kind of microwave weapon</a> for cooking your enemy from communication satellites.</li><li><b>Dan</b> is wardriving in North Carolina in the town the Internet forgot.</li></ul><i><a href="http://radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode203/RFHPC203ChinaExascalePrototypes.mp3" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Download the MP3</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/WgEZzd">Subscribe on iTunes</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href="http://bit.ly/QXKy3V">RSS Feed</a></i><br /><br /><a href="http://insidehpc.com/newsletter"><i>Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter</i></a>.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RadioFreeHpcPodcast/~4/fh0YxYJvOhc" height="1" width="1" alt=""/>0noIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC&nbsp;team looks at China's new ARM-based Exascale supercomputer prototype. As reported in China Daily, scientists have put an exascale computing prototype into operation that does not run the x86 instruction set. The SuRich BruecknerIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC&nbsp;team looks at China's new ARM-based Exascale supercomputer prototype. As reported in China Daily, scientists have put an exascale computing prototype into operation that does not run the x86 instruction set. The Sunway exascale computer prototype was developed by the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology (NRCPC),&nbsp;the team that developed Sunway TaihuLight, crowned the world's fastest computer two years in a row in 2016 and 2017. The Sunway exascale computer prototype is very much like a concept car that can run on road,"said Yang Meihong, director of the National Supercomputing Center in Jinan. "We expect to build the exascale computer in the second half of 2020 or the first half of 2021," said Yang.Another prototype exascale supercomputer Tianhe-3 passed the acceptance tests on July 22. Its final version is expected to come out in 2020. The two prototypes marked a further step towards China's successful development of the next-generation supercomputer. After that, we do our Catch of the Week: Rich points us to the story about&nbsp;Rigetti Computing's pending&nbsp;128-qubit quantum computer. The company has already built the 128-qubit processing chip, and is working to put all the pieces together to bring more power to researchers and developers. If successful, it could be the world’s most powerful quantum computer and it could have the chance to outpace traditional supercomputers. Meanwhile, you can already access IBMQ, D-Wave, and Chinese quantum machines in the cloud today.Henry notes that one of the scary things to come out of the Black Hat conference is a new kind of microwave weapon for cooking your enemy from communication satellites.Dan is wardriving in North Carolina in the town the Internet forgot.Download the MP3&nbsp;*&nbsp;Subscribe on iTunes&nbsp;*&nbsp;RSS Feed Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter.hpc,supercomputing,supercomputer,high,performance,computing,simulation,big,datahttp://rardiofreehpc.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-look-at-china-new-exascale-prototypes.htmlCreative Commmons care of insideHPC, LLC.Rich BruecknernonadultNews and commentary on high performance computing